Subway
Hardcover – Picture Book, May 18, 2010
HarperCollins · Hardcover · May 25, 2010
Speed.
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- Who it’s for
- A playful picture-book ride makes the city’s colors, numbers, maps, and connections part of the fun.
- Themes
- Urban subway systems, Trains, tracks, and navigation
- Genres
- Trains & Railways, City & Town Life, Poetry
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Speed. Color. Sound. Numbers. Maps. Connections. Navigation. Subway systems may be specific to certain cities around the world, but the pure thrill of a subway ride is universal to all young children. Christoph Niemann’s graphically elegant and playful picture book is a tour de force for preschoolers and a stellar addition to the canon of books about trains, trucks, planes, and automobiles.
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Based on the author’s own underground adventures with his young boys—chronicled for adult readers in Niemann’s New York Times blog, Abstract City—this innovative picture book is an invitation down underground, where a system of trains and tracks delivers millions of riders to their destinations each day. “Underneath the city is this beautifully simple system of letters, numbers, and colors. The trains and stations are huge and impressive but also comforting, because nothing ever changes. My boys are in charge; they can read the signs, navigate the grid, and they always know what happens next.”—Christoph Niemann
Underground Patterns
A playful picture-book ride makes the city’s colors, numbers, maps, and connections part of the fun.
Come here for
- The universal thrill of subway travel, rendered with graphic elegance
- A city’s systems made invitingly simple
Expect
- Speed, color, sound, and navigation in the mix
- A picture book for young children
Where it sits
| Trains & Railways | 61% |
|---|---|
| Poetry | 26% |
| City & Town Life | 18% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Art & Architecture
- US Biographies
- Introductions to Concepts
- Family Stories
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- New Baby Stories
- U.S. History
- U.S. Stories
- Trains & Railways
- Authors
- Christoph Niemann
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- May 25, 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Urban subway systems · Trains, tracks, and navigation
- Reading lane
- Art & Architecture