Isabel Hill's Urban Animals creatively engages children with the architecture around them. Its use of vivid pictures and rhyming story-telling make it both wonderfully educational and entertaining. I hope more people, young and old, will take the time to look for the "urban animals' in their neighborhoods".
-Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
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A fantastic assortment of animals is hiding right in your own neighborhood. Discover donkeys on grilles, boars guarding stoops, and elephants supporting flagpoles. The architectural animals in Urban Animals by Isabel Hill will introduce children to the fanciful world of our built environment.
Young children will enjoy the game of identifying animals, while older children and adults will pause over the quirky architectural details. This book includes a glossary of terms with simple, clear definitions that will empower children with new words and phrases about architecture. Read the latest reviews in Time Out New York Kids and the Brooklyn Paper and on the blog Frolicking through Cyberspace.
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“Photographer Isabel Hill takes readers on an engaging tour of New York City’s architectural animals, from a handsome snake twining around some brickwork on the side of a building to an alligator beginning a climb up a small skyscraper….[Urban Animals is] a primer on architectural terms and an invitation to look closely at the urban environment….It hits the bull’s-eye; readers will find the floppy-eared dog peering out from a Corinthian column and the elephants holding up flagpoles with their trunks irresistible, and they’ll want to go out immediately on animal quests of their own.”
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“My favorite animal is the horse and I just learned the word ‘medallion.’ Now I am going to use it as much as I can.”
- Sage S., Age 9