Discusses the principles of architecture and the development of building techniques from the Stone Age through the Renaissance, emphasizing such monuments as the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Parthenon, and the Great Wall.
Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing.
