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Grade 4 Up-Including both fiction and nonfiction, some popular titles and some less well known, Marcus has created a fascinating array of walking tours of New York City. The scope of this project is huge, and while not every literary landmark has been included, the author hits highlights in many of the neighborhoods of the city. Touring through each section, Marcus introduces history, characters, authors, anecdotes, quotes, and often parts of the specific stories from children's books. There are also maps and many illustrations from the books featured. Aficionados of children's literature will enjoy this title, as will city children and their families, or visitors familiar with these famous scenes and stories. This guide can be used as a resource while touring specific locations, or as an interesting history, and can be an armchair tour if preferred. Historical background on authors, illustrators, and publishing helps tie the books into the history of the city, and a bibliography of children's books set in New York City is included. Don't come to town without this handy guide.
JoAnn Jonas, Chula Vista Public Library, San Diego, CA
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
In this handy-size book, renowned critic and historian (and New Yorker) Leonard S. Marcus has created and narrated twenty walking tours of New York City based on children's literature. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and book art, the tours can be followed from start to finish or abbreviated to suit a reader's, or a family's, particular interests. Together they feature over one hundred places and spaces by which New York has lit the imaginations of writers and artists as varied as E. B. White, Maurice Sendak, Judy Blume, Faith Ringgold, Madeleine L'Engle, and many more. Along the way, Marcus deftly discusses more than two hundred of the best books about New York City ever written for young people.
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Grade 4 Up-Including both fiction and nonfiction, some popular titles and some less well known, Marcus has created a fascinating array of walking tours of New York City. The scope of this project is huge, and while not every literary landmark has been included, the author hits highlights in many of the neighborhoods of the city. Touring through each section, Marcus introduces history, characters, authors, anecdotes, quotes, and often parts of the specific stories from children's books. There are also maps and many illustrations from the books featured. Aficionados of children's literature will enjoy this title, as will city children and their families, or visitors familiar with these famous scenes and stories. This guide can be used as a resource while touring specific locations, or as an interesting history, and can be an armchair tour if preferred. Historical background on authors, illustrators, and publishing helps tie the books into the history of the city, and a bibliography of children's books set in New York City is included. Don't come to town without this handy guide.
JoAnn Jonas, Chula Vista Public Library, San Diego, CA
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
In this handy-size book, renowned critic and historian (and New Yorker) Leonard S. Marcus has created and narrated twenty walking tours of New York City based on children's literature. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and book art, the tours can be followed from start to finish or abbreviated to suit a reader's, or a family's, particular interests. Together they feature over one hundred places and spaces by which New York has lit the imaginations of writers and artists as varied as E. B. White, Maurice Sendak, Judy Blume, Faith Ringgold, Madeleine L'Engle, and many more. Along the way, Marcus deftly discusses more than two hundred of the best books about New York City ever written for young people.
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 100 books | 2 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - CAPs: New York, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Gramercy Park, Lower East Side (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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The city of New York started out as a tiny trading post on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Gramercy Park, Lower East Side, Ellis Island, Bank Street, Greenwich Village, New Amsterdam, East River, Times Square, Battery Park, Bryant Park, Empire State Building, George Washington, Puerto Rican, Upper West Side, Metropolitan Museum, Upper East Side, Columbus Circle, Flatiron Building, Grand Central Terminal, Grand Concourse, Jackie Robinson, Montague&
The city of New York started out as a tiny trading post on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Gramercy Park, Lower East Side, Ellis Island, Bank Street, Greenwich Village, New Amsterdam, East River, Times Square, Battery Park, Bryant Park, Empire State Building, George Washington, Puerto Rican, Upper West Side, Metropolitan Museum, Upper East Side, Columbus Circle, Flatiron Building, Grand Central Terminal, Grand Concourse, Jackie Robinson, Montague&