Big Buildings of the Modern World

This book is unique in the fact that students get an inside view of the animals presented. Students can see the inner workings of muscles and organs. On each page there are short paragraphs to accompany an illustration. The information is interesting and of high interest to children. The language and sentence structure is appropriate for grades K-3. I might use it for students to reference when writing reports about animals. This book could also be used as a read aloud; the pictures are large and interesting.

This book does a wonderful job of taking the reader from looking inside these machines to the missions they accomplished. Each page is full of interesting facts that leave the reader with a sense of wonder and awe. Cutaway illustrations take the reader through an informational journey examining the machines that took people into space. The illustrations are a mix of real photos and drawings with captions explaining them. I can see this book fitting in with grades 3-5 in connection to the Engineering Design Standards of NGSS. – National Science Teachers Association