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As the City Sleeps
By Johnson, Stephen T.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-67088-940-2
- Publisher
- Viking
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2003
Gr 2-4 This book begins with a circular picture of a dusky metropolitan skyline and finishes with the sun rising over the same scene. Individual spreads stand alone instead of telling part of a story. Glowing stones, a driverless taxi, spooky apparitions, creepy creatures, and other unexplained happenings populate these dark, color illustrations with p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2003
A modern city at night. Fourteen paintings—or are they photographs? Fourteen mysteries—or is it one big mystery? Like Van Allsburg's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, what this book is or will become is entirely up to the reader. And like Van Allsburg's book, each spread shows a full-page picture on the right with a short descriptive text on the left. The illustrations have extraordinary detail and lack the uniform brush strokes visible in Johnson's previous trompe l'oeil books, leading this r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
