Description
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner
Join Anno, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, on a spectacular tour of Europe!
A pictorial journey in the course of the traditional countryside, farms, and cities of northern Europe takes readers past familiar storybook characters, visual jokes and puzzles, tricks of viewpoint, and other surprises.
“With paintings, visual puzzles and tricks of perception, Anno introduces geography and science by specializing in youngsters and adults at work and play, in addition to on art, architecture, composers, and painters, as he conducts an imaginary tour of England . . . Lush paintings, exquisitely detailed . . . A very good book.”—Publishers Weekly
“Executed in meticulous and gently hued watercolors, this imaginative rendering will fill hours of wonderment, all the time with the delightful anticipation of in search of still yet another amazing detail.”—Booklist