Aysha Tengiz Books

A meticulously detailed and fun way to learn about cities across the world in this vibrant, playful information text. Almost a modern version of Where’s Wally or Richard Scarry, Tengiz takes a double page for each city; full page city illustrations presented in colourful building blocks with rivers and waterways weaving through.

The geographical layout is pretty much intact, for example Paris shows the Seine weaving through the page, with Notre Dame in the middle, and then the south bank with the Eiffel Tower, and the Sacre-Coeur all the way in the north. Tengiz populates the cities with a raft of weird and wonderful characters, some human, some animal-like.

The text reveals smatterings of foreign languages, as well as dotted information about food and drink, the city’s history, green spaces, famous landmarks, and incidental details, such as the numbers of stray cats in Rome. This lively and beautiful book will capture imaginations, provoke curiosity and provide hours of looking. Cities include Mexico City, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Seoul, Tokyo and Istanbul, New York, Rome, London and Amsterdam. The contents page shows where in the world the cities are. A fantastically intriguing book, its last page reminiscent of the Disney ride, It’s a Small World. Joyful!