Absolutely fascinating if you have an interesting in how things are built. I always wondered about how some of the world's ancient monuments were brought to life. This book gives you different types of building and gives lots of world famous building and structures as examples. The illustrations are stunning and I love all the facts added to each one. Perfect for my son who.loves non fiction books and soaks up facts like a sponge. I loved learning as I read too! Definitely one to keep referring back to and will be useful for school projects! Such a beautiful book to just pick up and appreciate. Think we will use it to spark some art too! Definitely want this in hardback. Love how it doesn't just focus on land builds, but explores underwater and space too!

This is a fascinating book demonstrating how different structures are built.

Children (and adults!) learn how to build strong, how to build tall, how to build flat, how to build long, how to build on water, how to build underground, how to build on ice, how to build in space and so much more.

The book has amazing examples of each type of structure/buildings. It covers soaring skyscrapers like The Shard, enormous bridges such as The Brooklyn Bridge and how the beautiful domed Pantheon was originally built in Italy. It has clear explanations throughout with absolutely stunning illustrations showing different engineering techniques and close ups. My favorite page was the one explaining how the Ithaa Restaurant was built in the Maldives 5 metres below sea level, amazing!

There are 'try at home' activities throughout the book encouraging children to try simple engineering projects for themselves.

There is so much information in this book. The perfect book to inspire any young structural engineers out there or just a fascinating book to learn more about the amazing structures and buildings we have in our world.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bloomsbury Publishing for this eARC.