Macaulay

David Macaulay, America’s “Explainer-in-chief” – CBS News Watch CBS News Author David Macaulay has spent more than 50 years finding ways to explain things, via his humorous and intricately illustrated books featuring wooly mammoth guides – his attempt to hook young readers on the wonders right before their eyes. Macaulay visits the “Building Stories” exhibit … Read more

Confession: I’m just mad about the mammoth, the one that wandered out of the Ice Age into one of author-illustrator David Macaulay’s books – where he found his purpose in life (if that’s a mammoth thing) helping Macaulay explain the way things work to kids. “I was desperate to find a humorous way of explaining … Read more