Age: 3rd-7th grade
Nonfiction: Architecture

Starting with structures built before 10,000 B.C., Paxmann provides kids with a tremendous introduction to architectural styles, focusing primarily on 1900-modern day. This might be better suited for free reading, but Paxmann infuses her text with popular figureheads, terminology, and figures without becoming too academic. The illustrations are also sublime sometimes providing people for scale (although the Baroque period people are definitely not to scale, probably to show off their fancy clothes), and detail highlighted by the use of color and shading. Speaking of color, this book definitely brings a vibrancy to the black and white blueprint books found in kid's architecture.