How Cities Work: Activity Book (How Things Work)

by Lonely Planet Kids (Author) James Gulliver Hancock (Illustrator)

How Cities Work: Activity Book (How Things Work)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: How Things Work

Get ready to explore cities inside and out in this jam-packed activity and sticker book!

Design your own futuristic building, untangle the cyclists, spot the missing wrenches at the construction site, use stickers to fill the zoo with animals, and much more. With over 200 stickers, colorful illustrations by renowned illustrator James Gulliver Hancock and amazing facts about cities around the world, this new activity book, based on the artwork from the bestselling How Cities Work, is a fun new release for kids.

With so much going on in a city environment, there's plenty of scope here to discover, explore and get creative. Packed with amazing facts about the inner workings of the city as well as wonderful illustrations of scenes including rush-hour traffic, high-rise life and even a cat stuck up a tree.

Kids aged 6-8 will find plenty to keep them occupied and challenged either at home or on the road. They can decorate and design their own cityscape scenes, and with 48 pages of activities and loads of stickers, there's plenty of fun to be had!

Activities include:

- Search and find in a busy cityscape scene

- Color in a high-rise skyscraper with marker pens

- Spot the difference between two pictures of 'Fluffy' the cat stuck up a tree

- Add stickers to the allotment gardens

- Design your own protest posters

- Complete a city-themed word search

- And much, much more!

About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!

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Joe Fullman is a freelance author based in London. Over the past 20 years, he has - by a rather neat symmetry - written and contributed to guidebooks to around 20 countries. That means he's visited an awful lot of museums - although he's always happy to fit in a couple more. In between his foreign adventures, Joe has also found time to write children's books on everything from dinosaurs and space to music and ancient history. Joe also authored Incredible Cabinet of Wonders for Lonely Planet Kids, released in October 2017.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781838691042
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Lonely Planet
Publication date
June 16, 2020
Series
How Things Work
BISAC categories
JNF031000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Lifestyles | City & Town Life
JNF001000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Activity Books
JNF005000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Architecture
JNF051120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | How Things Work/Are Made
Library of Congress categories
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