About the Cover
For more than 40 years, Guidecraft’s products, including its extensive line of classic and innovative wood building blocks, have encouraged open-ended play. For a recent photo shoot that integrated Guidecraft’s roadway systems with its community buildings, unit blocks and road signs, the company enlisted the help of award-winning architect Lester Walker. Walker is the author of eight books including Block Building for Children, which contains detailed instructions for 18 projects that include a boat dock, a farm, a mosque, a city of the future, and the Emerald City of Oz. Each construction requires 11 specific sizes and shapes of wooden blocks. Walker’s two most popular books contain projects for adults. Tiny Houses and American Shelter have each sold more than 100,000 copies.
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