Block City - Hardcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Wolff, Ashley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525443991 ISBN 13: 9780525443995

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile, 1988

Synopsis

A child creates a world of his own which has mountains and sea, a city and ships, all from toy blocks.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850. He spent his childhood in Edinburgh, Scotland, but traveled widely in the United States and throughout the South Seas. The author of many novels, including The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, The Black Arrow, and Treasure Island, he died in 1894.

From Booklist:

PreS. First published in Stevenson's classic collection A Child's Garden of Verses in 1883, this timeless poem about imaginative play gets its own lively picture book here, centering on a contemporary boy who uses his building blocks to make his own world. Toddlers will see themselves in clear, double-page spreads that show the boy on the carpet by the sofa, using colored blocks of different shapes and sizes to build a town by the sea. The simple rhyming words ("Great is the palace / with pillar and wall, / A sort of a tower / on the top of it all") and crisp computer graphics show how single shapes and objects can join in all kinds of scenarios. Then comes the power of knocking everything all down ("block upon block / lying scattered and free"), though the boy will always remember his town by the sea--even as he joins his friends outside in their suburban subdivision. Hazel Rochman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0525443991
• ISBN 13: 9780525443995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1