That said, if your kids are at all in to putting things together, it is worth the price. If you want a 3D visual aide while reading you can purchase the LEGO Architecture Robie House kit. I ran out to Toys R Us and bought the game Blockus (which contains four complete sets of 12 pentominoes) to have for my students to play with while we read the first couple of the chapters of the book. These mathematical shapes are discussed in a preface and are so intriguing that you will want to buy a set to play with too. Throughout this book, Calder, one of the “Wright Three,” constantly fiddles with his pentominoes that he keeps in his pocket. In addition to being a great introduction to an historic piece of architecture, the Balliett mysteries also include a dose of math. Though some of the mystery is fiction, the information about the architecture is fact, and a blurb at the end of the book helps the reader decide what’s factual and what was just “story.” Pentominoes Readers learn about its structure, style, and history through the eyes of the three young sleuths. While trying to save the famous home from being dismantled and sent to three museums across the globe, the kids in the story visit, research and discuss Wright’s masterpiece. While becoming engrossed in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park and a fictitious mystery surrounding the Robie House (also in Hyde Park), readers learn about the life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright. In The Wright Three three sixth graders, Calder, Petra and Tommy, try to save the Robie House, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous homes, from destruction.
It’s part of a trilogy of mysteries written by Blue Balliett that each explore an artist and one of their works. Right now I am reading The Wright Three to my art classes and they are loving it. It’s called The Wright Three, written by Blue Balliett. There are few children’s books on Wright, and really only one good one, but the one good one is a gem. Posted Maby Kristin Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie HouseĪt the end of my American Art History: Volume IV, we study two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s pieces of architecture, one of which is the Robie House, built in 1910 in Chicago near the University of Chicago.
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