Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner, The Boston Globe/The Horn Book Magazine
Fanfare, Horn Book Magazine
Best Children’s Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education
Children’s and Young Adult Book Award, International Reading Association (IRA)
Notable Children’s Book, American Library Association (ALA)

A picture book that connects great works of architecture to the ways children build and play.

Cup on cup s tacking up,
smaller, smaller,
and growing taller!

Children building- Concrete poetry-

Pair them with notable structures from around the world and see children’s constructions taken to the level of architectural treasures.

Here is a unique celebration of children’s playtime explorations and the surprising ways childhood experiences find expression in the dreams and works of innovative architects.

Come be inspired to play-dream-build-discover!