Book of Cities

Name: Book of Cities
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ISBN: 9780789318213

ISBN-10: 0789318210

ISBN-13: 9780789318213

Edition: 2009

Authors: Piero Ventura

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Ever wondered what people are doing in cities all over the world at any given moment? Piero Ventura's charmingly illustrated children's bookappreciated by both young and oldbrings bustling scenes of major cities to life in intricate detail. This facsimile edition of Ventura's original book, first published in 1975, provides a colorful, educational, and unique tour of major world cities. Delight in each city as you look for the London policeman holding up traffic, children shoveling the heavy snow of the side streets in Moscow, clerks waiting on customers in a huge Parisian department store, or the steam rising from the Chinese food cooking on a tiny houseboat in Hong Kong. The finely drawn…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Universe Publishing
Publication date: 3/24/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 64
Size: 9.50" wide x 13.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



From the Author's Desktop I've always wished I could fly, ever since I was little. Not by sitting in an airplane, but by flapping my arms like birds flap their wings. I was fascinated by the idea of seeing the world from above-houses, people, cities, the countryside, the sea. Everything must be more beautiful from up there! Of course, I never quite succeeded. So then I tried to imagine what it would be like, and to tell about it through drawing. Obviously, from way up high everything looks tinier and more curious, but you can see and understand a lot of things you can't from down on the ground. So, year after year, book after book, more and more young readers all around the world came to call me "the little-people guy." Over thirty years have now passed since I drew Book of Cities. Cities, and children, have changed a lot since then-and naturally I have, too; to see any one of the many "little people" in this book, I now have to put on my glasses! But I'm sure that there are still many little boys and girls all around the globe who want to fly-in order to see and understand a world that is increasingly complicated, yet ever more fascinating.