How Cities Work by Lonely Planet Kids


How Cities Work
Title : How Cities Work
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ISBN : 1786570211
ISBN-10 : 9781786570215
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 24
Publication : First published January 1, 2016

Get ready to explore the city in a whole new way. This innovative book for younger readers is packed with city facts, loads of flaps to lift, and unfolding pages to see inside buildings and under the streets.


Children aged 5+ can learn about skyscrapers, subway systems and stinky sewers. Discover where people live and peek behind closed doors to see what's going on in houses and apartments, or why not find out about what goes on underneath the streets you walk on every day?


Each page is stylishly illustrated by James Gulliver Hancock, creator of the All The Buildings That I've Drawn So Far series (Universe Publishing) and there are loads of quirky details to spot. How many giant cowboy hats can you find through the book?


Created in consultation with Jill Sterrett, lecturer with the department of Urban Planning at the University of Washington.



Contents :



The birth of a city
In and out of the city
City living
Build, build, build!
High-rise life
Green spaces
Going underground
City hall
Emergency services
Recreation and culture
Night and day
Cities of the future


About Lonely Planet Kids: From the world's leading travel publisher comes Lonely Planet Kids, a children's imprint that brings the world to life for young explorers everywhere. With a range of beautiful books for children aged 5-12, we're kickstarting the travel bug and showing kids just how amazing our planet can be.


From bright and bold sticker activity books, to beautiful gift titles bursting at the seams with amazing facts, we aim to inspire and delight curious kids, showing them the rich diversity of people, places and cultures that surrounds us. We pledge to share our enthusiasm and love of the world, our sense of humour and continual fascination for what it is that makes the world we live in the diverse and magnificent place it is.


It's going to be a big adventure - come explore!




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How Cities Work Reviews

  • Palinda

  • Kate

    Lonely Planet kids has done it again with "How Cities Work." This book allows kids the opportunity to explore the city inside, outside and underground, with lots of cool flaps to lift to see inside buildings, not to mention unfold pages to find out what is going on above your head and udder your feet. Overall a fantastic book that gives a full in depth account to city life as you have never seen it before, and already a popular book amongst kids, which is currently hot on the reserve list.

  • Allison

    Such a great book! The pictures are wonderfully detailed with lots and lots of fun and creative flaps to lift. O is a little young for the information about each page, but that didn't stop him from pouring over the pictures for 2 weeks (which is really long in toddler years).

  • Andy Hickman

    “How Cities Work” (Lonely Planet Kids)
    You can’t help but look at all the images and peak behind the flaps that disclose what is happening inside. **

  • Raina

    I was excited to pick this up, thinking I'd take it out to schools, but found that it was a little too simplistic for that usage (for me).

    There are lift-the-flaps, some fold-out pages, and it's engagingly illustrated.

    I think my expectations were especially raised because of how much I enjoyed
    You Rule!: A Practical Guide to Creating Your Own Kingdom, also put out by Lonely Planet. But this is pitched much lower than that.