Storied City: A Children's Book Walking-tour Guide to New York City

Leonard S. Marcus

Dutton Children's Books, 2003 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 154 pages

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.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Storied City: A Children's Book Walking-tour Guide to New York City
• Author: Leonard S. Marcus
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Dutton Children's Books, 2003
• ISBN: 0525469249, 9780525469247
• Length: 154 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Travel