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Booklist - 03/01/2013 The 12-day fun-filled New York City romp of an adventurous teacher and five students is recounted in the style of The Twelve Days of Christmas. On our first day in New York, / Just guess what we did see . . . / The Statue of Liberty! / On our second day in New York, / Just guess what we did see! / Two folks in love / And the Statue of Liberty. And so it goes, as they hurry through the Upper East Side (three posh pups near the Guggenheim Museum), Midtown (four soaring birds while viewing the Empire State Building), and Coney Island (five golden rings on a fortune-teller), until it’s departure time. Richly colored cartoon illustrations, with a dialogue bubble here and there for added humor, depict the wide-eyed characters and their surroundings with a fair amount of detail that never overwhelm. The final spread is a pictorial map of the five boroughs with the 12 visited locales indicated. A jolly jaunt that introduces a few classic Big Apple landmarks. - Copyright 2013 Booklist.

School Library Journal - 04/01/2013 PreS-Gr 1—Five students and their teacher arrive in The Big Apple to see the sights. From the Statue of Liberty, through Coney Island, the American Museum of Natural History, and ending at the South Street Seaport, the children get caught up in the vibe of the city. Bolden uses "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as a model for her text, which seems an odd choice, and the locales that the visitors choose (named only in the back matter) are odder still. A helpful map that orients viewers is appended. While some of the sights are iconic (the Empire State Building, for example), many of the others are not and children will be hard-pressed to identify what they are seeing. Even the vibrant illustrations are of no help in that regard. For example, the spread of Grand Central Station bears no sign identifying it as such, and the text cites "eight babes-a-bawling." Indeed, there are eight babies crying in the art but what they have to do with Grand Central Station is puzzling. Bolden does succeed in capturing the feel of the city, but the information is too spare for children to learn much from it. Stronger books that will give a greater sense of New York include Laura Krauss Melmed's New York, New York! From A to Z (HarperCollins, 2005) and Roxie Munro's The Inside-Outside Book of New York City (Putnam, 1985).—Joan Kindig, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA - Copyright 2013 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

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