Motel of the Mysteries - Hardcover

MacAulay, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395284244 ISBN 13: 9780395284247

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1979

Synopsis

Amateur archaeologist Howard Carson draws wholly erroneous conclusions about the civilization of the ancient country of Usa when he accidentally stumbles upon Motel Toot

About this title

About the Author:

David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post–Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given "to encourage
people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations." Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books.
David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont.

Review:

"David Macaulay . . . is a superb craftsman and an imaginative writer and illustrator . . . His new book is a marvel of imagination and a comfortable satire. He projects a time when our civilization will have been buried . . . As always with Mr. Macaulay's books, wonderfully illustrated." The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0395284244
• ISBN 13: 9780395284247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 95