Great children's books that take place in NYC? Need gift for friends who just moved back. Pre-school. Thanks.
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10.25.11, 01:45 PM
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Eloise
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10.25.11, 01:46 PM
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I think there's a book called 21 elephants about the Brooklyn Bridge. There's a bunch about the little red lighthouse (under the GW Bridge), but I don't recall any names.
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10.25.11, 01:47 PM
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Tell Me a Mitzi, Hester (a great out-of-print Halloween book), Ezra Jack Keats' books
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10.25.11, 01:47 PM
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I may be off on the exact titles, but Miffy Loves NY; The ABCs of NY (S is for scaffolding, and other things kids really see everyday,) Go Wild in NYC (about nature in NY.)
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10.25.11, 01:48 PM
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Fireboat...thought not sure about that age. It's a picture book, but the topic might be too mature since it deals with 9/11.
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10.25.11, 01:49 PM
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Love that book, but it is def not for preschool. Illustration shows planes crashing into WTC.
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10.25.11, 03:23 PM
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My New York. Eloise books. The man who walked between the towers. the little red lighthouse and teh great gray bridge. Lyle Crocodile books. Subway. There are several NYC alphabet books.
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10.25.11, 01:50 PM
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Check plus on the Lyle books! I think the first book is called The House on East 84th Street.
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10.25.11, 01:56 PM
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88th, i think. but yes, they are awesome.
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10.25.11, 01:57 PM
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I love "Down in the Subway" and another book called "A Year In the City" (out of print but worth the search -- even though it's not specifically NYC but a generic city that looks exactly like NYC). Don't know the authors but an Amazon search will probably bring them up.
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10.25.11, 01:50 PM
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For older kids, "A Cricket in Times Square."
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10.25.11, 01:51 PM
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Yup. Also From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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10.25.11, 01:53 PM
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YES!!!!
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10.25.11, 01:54 PM
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Stuart Little!
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10.25.11, 02:02 PM
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Freaky Friday (at least the version written in 1960-something).
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10.25.11, 02:03 PM
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For older kids: When You Reach Me (won Newbery 2 years ago)
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10.25.11, 02:13 PM
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there's one called somethign like new york inside/outside new york. may be out of print, but gorgeous
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10.25.11, 01:53 PM
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Curious George in the Big City
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10.25.11, 01:58 PM
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Knuffle Bunny! And the Lyle Lyle Crocodile books.
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10.25.11, 02:01 PM
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Ditto!
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10.25.11, 03:24 PM
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I live in Brooklyn
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10.25.11, 02:03 PM
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You Can't Take a Balloon into the the Metropolitan Museum.
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10.25.11, 02:30 PM
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Query--OP, how old are you? In my parents' generation (they graduated college in the early 50s) this would have been much more common among UMC families. I even remember my dad saying to me (in the 70s, when I wanted to get a job during high school): "no daughter of mine has to work." Now that he's in his 80s, and I'm in my 50s (with a successful career and a family) he gets it and is really proud of my accomplishments.
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10.25.11, 03:01 PM
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sorry wrong post. Not a children's book. apologies.
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10.25.11, 03:02 PM
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Hattie and the Wild Waves by Barbara Cooney; a wonderful old book is The Travels of Marco by Jean Merrill, about a pigeon who leaves his coop (I always read this as co-op) and flies into different New York City neighborhoods and tries the foods
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10.25.11, 03:11 PM
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Music Over Manhattan (set in Brooklyn) by Mark Karlins
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10.25.11, 03:15 PM
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Corduroy!
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10.25.11, 04:51 PM
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Tar Beach, The House on E. 88th Street (Lyle), The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, Snowy Day, Maira Kalman books like Fireboat, Next Stop Grand Central, Max Makes A Million
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10.25.11, 05:00 PM
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