NEW YORK, CHICAGO, etc: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. First edition. Edited by Patty Smith Hill and Mary M. Reed of the Teachers College at Columbia University. A volume in the SOCIAL SCIENCE READERS series intended to bring young readers beyond the simple acquisition of basic skills and into an understanding of the dramatic social and creative life of the communities around them. The audience is kindergarten and primary grades. The text here is in simple verse accompanied by well drawn and detailed illustrations by Eleanor Lee of the various steps involved in constructing a tall building from excavation of the site, transformation of the landscape, transportation of materials, to the classroom building of a “tall building”. Ref. 17120 Architecture for Children Oblong 8vo 16.7 x 18 cm) 36 + (2) pp. with 16 full page illustrations in colour.