Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright

Description: A little boy who loves to find shapes in nature grows up to be one of America's greatest architects in this inspiring picture book biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. Full color. 10 x 10.

Brief description: K.L. Going is the author of many critically acclaimed novels, including The Liberation of Gabriel King and the Printz Honor-winning Fat Kid Rules the World, as well as the picture books Bumpety, Dunkety, Thumpety-Thump!, illustrated by Simone Shin; Can't Stop Kissing That Baby, illustrated by Fiona Lee; and The Shape of the World, illustrated by Lauren Stringer. She lives with her family in Glen Spey, New York. Visit her at KLGoing.com.

Review Quotes: In Going's title, young Frank Lloyd Wright is encouraged by his mother to investigate shapes, and as he fingers the smooth wood of his building blocks, he comes to understand how shapes fit within shapes and, later, how that arrangement works in nature. When he became an architect, this perspective manifested in the angular cantilevers of domestic architecture nestling in wooded settings, in "towers as tall and thick as trees," in windows that admitted the outside rather than walls that excluded it....[the] illustrations reflect the designs of their [subject]...[and] incorporates the architect's imagination at play alongside actual buildings come to life...supplies a list of resources and closing author notes.--BCCB