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.