Sasek, Miroslav. This
is San Francisco. New York, NY: Universe Publishing., 1962. ISBN:
0-7893-0962-9.
Author
website: http://www.miroslavsasek.com/
Media:
watercolors
Genre:
juvenile, nonfiction
Annotation
Retro illustrations bring the reader to San Francisco and provide a tour of the city.
My thoughts
These picture book travel guides are fantastic and timeless classics. The
book starts by showing San Francisco as a “cosmopolitan” city by the bay and
shows San Francisco’s streets, tunnels, driving situations, hills, cable cars,
historic sites, tourist destinations, museums, zoo, local stops, highlights, and
so on. In fact, many of the locations remain the same today. It is good for nostalgia
and also to introduce children to this wonderful city.
Curricular
connections
These retro travel guides from the 60s are classics. Though these picture
books are suggested for younger children, they can be used in curriculum (like
geography and art) for older students.
5th grade Geography
Middle school Art (illustrations can provide inspiration for travel destination art
projects)
Reading level/ Interest Age
Elementary and
up.
Author’s Awards
New York Times
Choice of Best Illustrated Books of the Year, 1959 for This is London.
New York Times
Choice of Best Illustrated Books of the Year, 1960 for This is New York.
Boys' Clubs of
America Junior Book Award, 1961 for This is New York.
International
Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honor List 1979 for This is the United
Nations.
Award for
Excellence, Society of Illustrators
Annual National
Exhibition, New York, 1960
The Leyton Prize,
London, 1961.
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