Cathedral
by David Macaulay
Nonfiction · ages 8–12 · 720L (~4th grade) · 77 pages · 1973
Why we'd hand it over
The gold standard for teaching kids that buildings are solved problems—Macaulay's pen drawings are so clear that 8-year-olds grasp why cathedrals are built the way they are, and curious kids will return to it for years.