Talking Walls

Walls have been built across the globe for centuries, and this illustrated book for young readers explores what they have meant to the people who raised them. Its tour begins with the Great Wall of China and ends with the Berlin Wall, showing how different societies have used stone and brick for protection, division and identity.

By comparing walls from many places and periods, the book invites children to consider why people build barriers and what those structures reveal about the times that produced them.