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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2001
K-Gr 2 Subway musicians, sidewalk break dancing, mounted police officers, hot dog vendors, yellow taxicabs, and pigeons are all celebrated in this stylized overview of life in the Big Apple. Double-page spreads feature cleverly split illustrations that depict life both above and below the ground. For example, Rockefeller Center's skating rink provides a roof for the shops below, and a street busy with cars and trucks sits ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2001
Dark, light; over, under: each defines its opposite. A dark dust-jacket illustration of a family on the subway is balanced by a similar group aboveground pictured on the gleaming white back cover. The play between opposites continues in full-spread cross sections inside this handsome book that explores the world beneath the city: "Under New York, / below skyscrapers and moonshine and sky, / there are stones and sand, clay, and lots of big rocks / made b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
