(Children’s) World Cities

Moscow

ISBN 1 84138 016 4

Keywords City, Russia

Sydney

ISBN 1 84138 017 2

Keywords City, Australia

Of various Belitha Press books reviewed by us these in certain respects come closest to being truly reference works. For their impressionistic portraits of cities most children will rely on films, videos, CD‐ROMs, or Websites; what can a book offer in comparison with these multimedia riches? Obviously, permanence: of the information and of its location within each volume. Also the systematic compilation and presentation of the information. Each volume is produced to a very standard pattern, beginning with maps of the city...