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Alphabet Books

Grimes, Nikki.  "C" Is for City.  New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1995

Isadora, Rachel.  City Seen from A to Z.  New York: Greenwillow, 1983.

Johnson, Stephen.  Alphabet City.  New York: Viking, 1995.

Stevenson, James.  Grandpa's Great City Tour: An Alphabet Book.  New York: Greenwillow, 1983.

Picture Books

Baker, Jeannie.  Window.  New York: Greenwillow, 1991.

Barracca, Debra.  The Adventures of Taxi Dog.  New York: Dial, 1990.

Bash, Barbara.  Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City.  San Francisco: Sierra Club Book, 1990.

Best, Cari.  Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me.  New York: Orchard Books, 1995.

Best, Cari.  Taxi! Taxi!  Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.

Bunting, Eve.  Secret Place.  New York: Clarion, 1997.

Craig, Helen.  The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.  Cambridge MA: Candlewick, 1992.

DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne.  City Green.  New York: Morrow, 1994.

Farber, Norma.  As I Was Crossing Boston Common.  New York: Dutton, 1991.

Florian, Douglas.  City Street.  New York: Greenwillow, 1990.

Henderson, Kathy.  A Year in the City.  Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 1996.

Hoban, Tana. I Read Signs.  New York: Greenwillow, 1983.

Keats, Ezra Jack.  Apt. 3.  New York: Aladdin, 1986.

Lasky, Kathryn.  I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street.  New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Lenski, Lois.  Sing a Song of People.  Boston:  Little, Brown, 1987.

Lobel, Anita.  Away from Home.  New York:  Greenwillow.   1994.

McCloskey, Robert.  Make Way for Ducklings.  New York: Viking, 1941.

McPhail, David.  Lost!  Boston:  Joy Street Books, 1990.

Nims, Bonnie Larkin.  Where Is the Bear in the City? Morton Grove IL: A. Whitman, 1992.

Provensen, Alice.  Town and Country.  New York: Crown, 1984.

Robbins, Ken.  City/Country: A Car Trip in Photographs.  New York: Viking, 1985.

Rotner, Shelley.  Citybook.  New York: Orchard, 1994.

Tresselt, Alvin.  Wake Up City!  New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1990.

Poetry/Rhymes

Adoff, Arnold.  Street Music: City Poems.  New York: HarperCollins, 1995. (gr. k-4)

Cole, Joanna & Stephanie Calmenson, (compilers). Miss Mary Mack and Other Children's Street Rhymes.  New York: Morrow, 1990.  (gr. 2-up)

Greenfield, Eloise.  Night on Neighborhood Street.  New York: Dial, 1991. (gr. k-3)

Grimes, Nikki.  Meet Danitra Brown.  New York:  Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. 1994

Rice, Eve.  City Night.  New York: Greenwillow, 1987. (pres.-gr.1)

Yolen, Jane, (selector).  Sky Scrape/City Scape: Poems of City Life.   Honesdale PA: Wordsong, Boyds Mills Press, 1996.

Informational

Bruning, Nancy. Cities against Nature.  Chicago: Children's Press, 1992.   (gr.4-6)

Byers, Helen.  Kidding around Boston: A Young Person's Guide.  Santa Fe NM: J. Muir Publications, 1993.

Do Skyscrapers Touch the Sky?: First Questions & Answers about the City.   Alexandria VA: Time-Life for Children, 1994. (gr. k-2)

Freedman, Russell.  Immigrant Kids.  New York: Puffin, 1995 (gr. 3-7)

Halliburton, Warren J.  City and Village Life.  New York: Crestwood House, 1993.

Herberman, Ethan. The City Kid's Field Guide.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.

Hirschi, Ron.  City Geese.  New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987.

Isaacson, Philip M.  Round Buildings, Square Buildings, and Buildings That Wiggle like a Fish.  New York:  Knopf, 1988. (gr. 5-up)

Jakobsen, Kathy.  My New York.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.   (pres.-gr. 3)

Kent, Peter.  A Slice through a City.  Brookfield CT: Millbrook Press, 1996.  (gr. 3-6)

Krull, Kathleen.  City within a City: How Kids Live in New York's Chinatown.   New York: Dutton/Lodestar Books, 1994.

Krull, Kathleen.  The Other Side: How Kids Live in a California Latino Neighborhood.  New York: Dutton/Lodestar Books, 1994.

Leuzzi, Linda.  Urban Life.  New York: Chelsea House, 1995.

Lorenz, Albert.  Metropolis: Ten Cities, Ten Centuries.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.

Macaulay, David.  City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction.   Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.  (gr. 6 up)

Macaulay, David.  Unbuilding.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.   (gr. 5 up)

Macaulay, David.  Underground.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.   (gr. 5 up)

Macdonald, Fiona.  Cities, Citizens & Civilizations.  New York: Franklin Watts, 1996. (gr. 5-8)

Maestro, Betsy.  Taxi: A Book of City Words.  New York: Clarion Books, 1989. (pres.-gr.3)

Monke, Ingrid.  Boston.  Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1988. (gr. 3 up)

Richardson, Joy.  Skyscrapers.  New York: Franklin Watts, 1994.

Richardson, Wendy.  Cities: Through the Eyes of Artists.  Chicago: Children's Press, 1989. (gr. 2-4)

The Visual Dictionary of Buildings.  New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1992.   (gr. 4 up)

Von Tscharner, Renata.  New Providence: A Changing Cityscape.  San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.


Compiled by Children's Department, Boston Public Library, 1997.


 


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