{"id":24420,"date":"2011-12-15T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=24420"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:10:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:10:35","slug":"gift-guide-great-childrens-books-that-feature-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/12\/15\/gift-guide-great-childrens-books-that-feature-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"GIFT GUIDE: Great children&#8217;s books that feature cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photo by Erica Minton\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2367\/2422092670_53ff1b4f6e_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the (almost) five years since our first kid was born, my wife and I have amassed an impressive collection of children\u2019s books. But as our collection grew, I noticed that only a handful of our books depict cities in a positive light. The vast majority of children\u2019s stories take place in bucolic settings, which I\u2019ll admit makes sense if you\u2019re writing about anthropomorphic woodland creatures. What\u2019s worse, many books that do feature urban settings tend to demonize them as polluted or dangerous places (witness the classic <em>Harry the Dirty Dog<\/em> or the works of Bill Peet).<\/p>\n<p>This realization set me on a mission to find kids\u2019 books that celebrate and take place in\u2014or, even better, are actually <em>about<\/em>\u2014cities. I\u2019m pleased to report that I\u2019ve found a handful. If you have kids, or know any, and you\u2019re looking to give them a gift that subtly inflicts your pro-urban agenda on their young and malleable minds, you can\u2019t go wrong with any of these fine titles:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/astormofwords.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/munsch-bsj-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Jonathan Cleaned Up \u2014 Then He Heard a Sound<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong> Robert Munsch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No list of city-focused books would be complete without this, Robert Munsch\u2019s hilarious ode to bureaucratic ineptitude. When a subway station appears in his apartment, Jonathan does what any good citizen would do: he goes to City Hall to complain. He navigates his way through the red tape and eventually discovers the secret to getting things fixed: just apply copious amounts of blackberry jam. Long-time Torontonians\u2019 hearts will warm at the sight of a red Gloucester subway car, though unfortunately for Jonathan, said train deposits hundreds of inconsiderate commuters straight into his living room.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freshmadenyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/9780316015479_388X586.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"130\" \/>The Curious Garden<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong> Peter Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s High Line is the inspiration for this amazing story about Liam, a boy in a drab city who finds a few tenacious plants growing on an abandoned railway and decides to become a gardener. As Liam\u2019s horticultural skills improve, his garden starts to grow of its own accord, and soon takes over the entire city \u2014 with a bit of help from a few other guerrilla gardeners inspired by Liam\u2019s example.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.betterworldbooks.com\/044\/You-Won-t-Like-This-Present-as-Much-as-I-Do-9780448450872.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"151\" \/>You Won\u2019t Like This Present as Much as I Do!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong> Lauren Child<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is one of a series of books featuring Charlie and Lola, a set of siblings who live in a low-rise apartment building in an unnamed British city. The first few books were written by creator Lauren Child herself, but subsequent releases\u2014this one included\u2014are based on scripts from the <em>Charlie and Lola<\/em> TV series. In <em>You Won\u2019t Like This Present as Much as I Do!<\/em>, Lola must choose a gift for her best friend, Lotta, taking into account the fact that Lotta\u2019s flat is too small to accommodate Lola\u2019s ideal gift: an \u201cactual pony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charlie and Lola\u2019s apartment building figures prominently in many of the stories; Charlie\u2019s best friend, Marv, lives in the same building. Given that 99% of children, when asked to draw \u201ca house,\u201d will produce a picture of a detached two-storey structure with a chimney and a big tree in the yard, depictions like this matter a lot.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/obj\/015020\/f1\/nlc009248-v6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/>The Subway Mouse<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong> Barbara Reid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Torontonian author and illustrator Barbara Reid is best known for her stunning Plasticine illustrations, which have graced her own books as well as stories by other authors. But she also deserves credit for portraying city life in her stories, including <em>Read Me a Book<\/em> (which includes an image of a parent reading to a child on a vintage TTC bus, and another depicting an apartment building full of people reading in living rooms and on balconies) and, best of all, <em>The Subway Mouse<\/em>. This tale of a young mouse who sets off from his subway station home in search of a mystical place known as Tunnel\u2019s End will immediately catch the eye of Junior Rocket Riders city-wide \u2014 if only because Reid renders the iconic TTC font in Plasticine right on the cover.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/covers.openlibrary.org\/w\/id\/256902-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"121\" \/>Martha Blah-Blah<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong> Susan Meddaugh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Martha is a talking dog whose amazing verbal powers are the result of her daily consumption of alphabet soup from Granny\u2019s Soup Company, whose product proudly features \u201cevery letter in every bowl.\u201d But when Granny\u2019s new owner fires half of her 26 alphabeticians to cut down on overhead (and slyly changes the company slogan to \u201cletters in every bowl\u201d), Martha\u2019s speech becomes garbled and she sets off through the city to track down the source of her problem. The urban setting is mostly backdrop in the Martha series, but bonus marks to author Susan Meddaugh in this one for her sly dig at the perils of corporate greed\u2014won\u2019t somebody, please, think of the talking canines?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n2\/images\/stories\/large\/2011\/12\/09\/LookAtThatBuilding-590x504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"86\" \/>Look At That Building!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong> Scot Ritchie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I reviewed this book in the fall 2011 issue of <em>Spacing<\/em>, I took author and illustrator Scot Ritchie to task a bit for turning what could have been a great reference book for kids about the components of buildings into a rather awkward narrative about friends who explore their city to get ideas about how to construct a doghouse. But despite this, the book does a fantastic job explaining about foundations, roofs, columns, and all those other structural elements that kids tend to ask surprisingly complex questions about when you least expect it. Thankfully, now there\u2019s a simple way to deliver the answers.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidscanpress.com\/Assets\/Books\/w_CityAbcBook_0767\/Covers\/0767_cv3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"142\" \/><\/strong><\/em>The City ABC Book \/ City 123<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong> Zoran Milich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although these are not storybooks, I would be remiss not to make mention of Zoran Milich\u2019s inspired set of picture books. Street furniture, signs, and urban infrastructure all become source material for letters and numbers, and Milich\u2019s keen eye for detail brings out the urbanist in all of us: you\u2019ll never be able to look at the metal backing of a park bench again without noticing it\u2019s shaped like a J.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rrrrred\/2422092670\/\">Erica Minton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the (almost) five years since our first kid was born, my wife and I have amassed an impressive collection of children\u2019s books. But as our collection grew, I noticed that only a handful of our books depict cities in a positive light. 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