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A Children's Book Walking-Tour Guide to New York City
by Leonard M. Marcus
Complete with illustrations, photos, and map, an informative guide provides readers with numerous walking tours of New York City that are based on the childrenÆs books of such celebrated authors as Judy Blume, E. B. White, and Maurice Sendak.
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.
"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." —School Library Journal
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Leonard S. Marcus is one of the most respected historians and critics in the field of children's books. His recently published Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book, was starred in School Library Journal as "highly readable, often humorous, and intensely rewarding." The Horn Book, in a starred review, said: "The interchanges are as valuable for his insights and creative connections as for his subjects' revelations. His judicious questions vary like the artists themselves."
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