Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old


Alphabet Under Construction
By: Denise Fleming
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Build, Dogs, Build: A Tall Tail
By: James Horvath
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Building a House
By: Byron Barton
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A machine digs a big hole. A cement mixer pours cement. Carpenters put up walls. Bricklayers,...

Building Our House
By: Jonathan Bean
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes
By: Hena Khan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book
Handsomely illustrated, shapes both simple (square, rectangle) and complex (cone, hexagon) are...

Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors
By: Hena Khan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
This picture book celebrates Islam's beauty and traditions. From a red prayer rug to a blue...

Home
By: Carson Ellis
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Travel through time, imagination, literature, and more for a unique look at "home" in any number...

How a House Is Built
By: Gail Gibbons
Age Level: 3-6 years old
As readers quickly comprehend, building a house is a complex project requiring the cooperative...

If I Built a House
By: Chris Van Dusen
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Imaginative Jack is ready to build the house of his dreams, complete with a racetrack, flying...

Look at That Building: A First Book of Structures
By: Scot Ritchie
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Introduce young readers to basic construction concepts through the eyes of five friends keen on...

Palazzo Inverso
By: D.B. Johnson
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Shapes in Buildings
By: Rebecca Rissman
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Can you spot the shape? Crisp photographs help children learn about the different shapes you can...

Young Frank, Architect
By: Frank Viva
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Young Frank is an architect. He lives with his grandfather, Old Frank, who is also an architect...
Age Level: 6-9 years old


A City Through Time
By: Philip Steele
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Follow the progress of an imaginary city through six key periods of time, each captured by a...

A House Is a House for Me
By: Mary Ann Hoberman
Age Level: 6-9 years old

A Year at a Construction Site
By: Nicholas Harris
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Send in the cranes! Bulldozers! Earthmovers! Would you like to watch how a building goes up?...

Amazing Buildings
By: Kate Hayden
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Architecture According to Pigeons
By: Speck Lee Tailfeather
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In this lively introduction to the world’s most beautiful buildings, readers take a journey...

Beavers
By: Gail Gibbons
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Beavers are fascinating animals. They build their own homes and live in family groups. They keep...

Bridges Are to Cross
By: Philomen Sturges
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
This ingeniously engineered book takes readers from the car-carrying Golden Gate Bridge in San...

Bridges: Amazing Structures to Design, Build & Test
By: Carol Johmann, Elizabeth Rieth
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Historical and technical information on the design and construction of bridges with easy hands-...

Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Gaudí
By: Rachel Rodriguez
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
By: Kelly Starling Lyons
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Philip Freelon’s dream became reality when his team was commissioned to design the National...

Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building
By: Christy Hale
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Recognizable constructions from childhood such as blocks and sandcastles and playful verse are...

If You Lived Here: Houses of the World
By: Giles Laroche
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Iggy Peck's Big Project Book for Amazing Architects
By: Andrea Beaty
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Iggy Peck, Architect
By: Andrea Beaty
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Let's Build a Clubhouse
By: Marilyn Singer
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Monumental Verses
By: J. Patrick Lewis
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Roberto: The Insect Architect
By: Nina Laden
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Ever since he was a wee mite (a termite, that is), Roberto has wanted to be an architect....

Skyscrapers! Super Structures to Design and Build
By: Carol A. Johmann
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The 13-Story Treehouse
By: Andy Griffiths
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction

The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
By: Christy Hale
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A biography of Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist, sculptor, and landscape architect,...

The Three Little Pigs: An Architectural Tale
By: Steven Guarnaccia
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
By: Jeanette Winter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, and dreamed of designing her own cities. After studying...

Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing
By: April Jones Prince
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This well-researched, handsomely illustrated picture book captures the anticipation and...
Age Level: 9-12 years old


A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park
By: Ashley Benham Yazdani
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
How did Central Park become a vibrant gem in the heart of New York City? Follow the visionaries...

Amazing Buildings
By: Philip Wilkinson
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Building (Eyewitness Books)
By: Philip Wilkinson
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Building Big
By: David Macaulay
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Built to Last
By: David Macaulay
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Crossing on Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World
By: David Macaulay
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
This fascinating story of the development of steam engines is told against the backdrop of David...

Curious Constructions: A Peculiar Portfolio of Fifty Fascinating Structures
By: Michael Hearst
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Some structures — like the Eiffel Tower and China’s Great Wall — are familiar. Others, however,...

From Mud Huts to Skyscrapers
By: Christine Paxmann
Age Level: 9-12 years old
A journey through the history of architecture, from the earliest mud huts to today’s soaring...

Take Shelter: At Home Around the World
By: Nikki Tate
Age Level: 9-12 years old
A roof, a door, some windows, a floor. All houses have them, but not all houses are alike. Some...

The Art of Construction: Projects and Principles for Beginning Engineers and Architects
By: Mario Salvadori
Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Future Architect's Handbook
By: Barbara Beck
Age Level: 9-12 years old
For children with a passion for drawing, or dreams of creating buildings, this book explores how...

The Story of Buildings
By: Patrick Dillon
Age Level: 9-12 years old
"Every building has a story to tell." From the pyramid erected so that an Egyptian pharaoh...

What It Feels Like to Be a Building
By: Forrest Wilson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Have you ever felt squashed? Squeezed? Pulled? Tugged? If so, then you know what it feels like...

Who Built That? Modern Houses
By: Didier Cornille
Age Level: 9-12 years old
A tour through ten of the most important houses by the greatest architects of the 20th and 21st...