Steven Weinberg (illustrator)
Great Ancient China Projects You Can Build Yourself
Nomad, 2008
If you have crafty, hands-on kids in your life, Great Ancient China Projects combines a little bit of history, lore, and culture with a variety of scientific and artistic things to do. The book reminds me of a workbook, and probably could be useful for lesson planning, home schooling, and the like. The layout is a bit too cluttered for my taste (more is not necessarily more), with somewhat perfunctory illustrations (sometimes odd, as when ink drawings of bronze vessels accompanies a chapter on silk and jade), and the occasional inexplicable looks-like-a-character-but-isn't (fengshui is 風水). But, if you don't mind picking and choosing for yourself, it could be a good resource for making paper, a mini terracotta army, a compass, noodles, and more. The book's aim is to get you out of the book and into your project, after all.
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