Frankly, the illustrations and humor are so wonderful I would consider the book just as engaging for adults.Īrchaeologists in the year 4022 discover what they interpret to be an elaborate burial site for royalty. It’s brilliant! Written in 1979, it remains, in my mind at least, the best way to introduce scientific thinking and concepts of archaeology to children. David Macaulay, the creative genius behind those cool architectural picture books like Cathedral, Castle, and The Way Things Work, wrote and illustrated this book that I can’t resist reading every time I come across it. I must have read Motel of the Mysteries 100 times as a child, and I have revisited this book more times than I can think of as an adult, always dismayed to find it still out of print. Berenstein revelation blow your mind? Do you automatically put on a Grover voice when you think of There’s a Monster at the End of this Book? Are you also freaking out over The Wrinkle in Time big screen adaptation coming soon to a theater near you? (If you answered yes to any of these I bet I know how old you are.) What books from your childhood still have a hold on you as an adult? Do you think of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie every time something in your life snowballs out of control? Did the Berenstain vs.
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