![]() I've always had it and I've always been willing to keep asking questions until I understood the larger picture." Who among us still possesses this faith in curiosity? Children. A visitor to the exhibition devoted to David Macaulay's creative process at the National Building Museum is confronted right from the start with Macaulay's own words wholeheartedly identifying his practice with that of curiosity: "The key behind all of the books I do, particularly with the information books, there's a sense of curiosity. This always seemed to me like a librarian's bad joke. What makes a writer a "children's book writer"? This is a deep question, much deeper in fact than asking what makes a "children's book." Those of us who have worked our way through David Macaulay's best-selling "information books," which account for 3.5 million of his 4 million sales, have often puzzled over the Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data that classifies these books as "juvenile literature." Building the cathedral of Amiens, the pyramid of Cheops, Pompeii, a Welsh castle, a Spanish Renaissance caravel, an Ottoman mosque, a nineteenth-century New England mill, or a twentieth century skyscraper is surely not child's play. ![]()
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