Best Selling Books by Stephen Biesty

Join this mind-boggling quest around some of the world's greatest buildings, following the clues with famous artist Stephen Biesty. A mysterious postcard arrives at Stephen's home. It contains a clue to an incredible quest for treasure. Somewhere in the world there's a lost city of gold: and you can help find it! Join Stephen for a whirlwind dash around the globe to track down the secrets of the most famous buildings in history. You'll find messages in invisible ink, maps, code breaking notes and more to help you. Plus, thanks to Stephen's fantastic 'inside-out' drawings, you'll get an amazing view of the nooks and crannies of each site and find out what they were like in their heyday. From the Empire State Building to the Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House to Angkor Wat: solve the clues, crack the codes, answer the riddles, and discover who the mystery postcard writer is.

Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself.

We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start making buildings? How did they learn to make them stronger, bigger, and more comfortable? Why did they start to decorate them in different ways? From the pyramid erected so that an Egyptian pharaoh would last forever to the dramatic, machine-like Pompidou Center designed by two young architects, Patrick Dillon's stories of remarkable buildings - and the remarkable people who made them - celebrates the ingenuity of human creation. Stephen Biesty's extraordinarily detailed illustrations take us inside famous buildings throughout history and demonstrate just how these marvelous structures fit together.

Detailed illustrations with explanatory captions and narrative text survey some sites in ancient Rome, including the house of a wealthy family, the Colosseum, the Baths of Trajan, and the Temple of Jupiter