David Macaulay (born 1946) is an American illustrator and writer.
He was born in the United Kingdom and moved to the United States at the age of eleven, soon becoming deeply interested in drawing. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and continued his studies in Italy.
Macaulay gained widespread recognition with his illustrated series on architecture. The first book in the series, Cathedral, received a Caldecott Honor in 1974. It was followed by five more architectural titles: City, Pyramid, Castle, Unbuilding (which imagines the dismantling of the Empire State Building), and Mill.
He achieved tremendous success with The Way Things Work, which won multiple awards, including the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for best nonfiction, an educational award from The Times of London, and the COPUS Science Book Award. In 1991, his book Black and White earned him the Caldecott Medal.
David Macaulay currently lives in Norwich, Vermont.
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Black and White is a postmodern picture book and recipient of the 1991 Caldecott Medal. Each two-page spread is divided into four quadrants, with each quadrant presenting a separate story: Seeing Things, Problem Parents, A Waiting Game, and Udder Chaos. While the stories can be read independently, they are interconnected […]
