Towers, Bridges, and other Structures  (See Engineering--the Save the Day Career for for commentary)

Grades PreK-3

Let's Try it Out with Towers and Bridges by Seymour Simon and Nicole Fauteux

• Simple building activities for PreK to 2 in a picture book

Into the Sky by Ryan Ann Hunter

• Picture book with simple information about skyscrapers

Cross a Bridges by Ryan Ann Hunter

Bridges are to Cross by Philemon Sturges

Sky Boys by Deborah Hopkinson

Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing by April Jones Prince

• Poetic story of P.T. Barnum crossing his circus elephants across the newly built Brooklyn Bridge

Sky Dancers by Connie Ann Kirk

Grades 3-8

The Great Bridge-Building Contest by Bo Zaunders

• Grades 2-5

Skyscraper by Lynn Curlee

• Excellent work of nonfiction that follows skyscrapers from their beginning into what is to come

Building Big by David MacCaulay

• Not to mention several others by MacCaulay

Skyscraper by Susan Goodman

• Booklist Starred Review

The Brooklyn Bridge: The story of the world's most famous bridge and the remarkable family that built it. by Elizabeth Mann

Fiction w/ Bridges on the cover:

Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse

• Reviewed by Menasha Kids

A Bridge to the Stars by Henning Mankell