Young Frank, Architect: A Picture Book

A Gizmodo Best Book, award-winning illustrator Frank Viva's picture book Young Frank, Architect is the story of an aspiring architect whose visit to New York City's MoMA inspires his creativity in unexpected ways. Young Frank is an aspiring architect. He lives with his grandfather, Old Frank, who is also an architect, and his spotted dog, Eddie. Using anything he finds—macaroni, pillows, toilet paper, shoes—Young Frank likes to make buildings that twist, chairs with zigzag legs, and even entire cities. But Old Frank disapproves, saying architects only create buildings. One day they go to The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. There, they see work by two famous architects named Frank: Frank Gehry's cardboard wiggly chair and Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City project, among other things. Old Frank sees that architects can do more than he thought they could.