This follow-up to How To Read a Story (2005) shows a child going through the steps of creating a story, from choosing an idea through sharing with friends.Ī young black child lies in a grassy field writing in a journal, working on “Step 1 / Search for an Idea- / a shiny one.” During a walk to the library, various ideas float in colorful thought bubbles, with exclamation points: “playing soccer! / dogs!” Inside the library, less-distinct ideas, expressed as shapes and pictures, with question marks, float about as the writer collects ideas to choose from. The factually-minded and fantasizers will find equal reward here. At the very last "Master James's mighty castle" is a moonlit ruin-ending in romance what began as a calculated plan. So there is no little drama in seeing the attack repulsed, the defenses hold but Macaulay does it artfully, with pictures (a catapult assembled, and then abandoned), and moves on in good historic order to the town spreading beyond the walls, Welsh and English passing freely through the gates. Meanwhile, one has also watched, close-up, the intricate construction of battlements, towers, gatehouses (and garderobes) designed to make the imaginary "Aberwyvern" an impregnable fortress. Thus, from one or another bird's-eye view, one sees the site as a ditch outlines the town, a moat cuts off the castle rock, bounding walls and towers rise, houses line the streets and stretch, with their garden plots, to the town wall-where at last, in 1295, Welsh soldiers mount an attack. "On a high limestone outcrop" along the Welsh coast, master engineer James and his staff build a castle and a town for Lord Kevin-to help secure northwest Wales, in 1283, for Edward I.
Everything you've always wanted to know about how a castle was defended-in a fusion of the organic and the technical that David Macaulay hasn't quite achieved before.
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