Charlotte in New York Book

It's 1894. Charlotte and her American family have been living in France for two years where her father has learned the new way of painting called Impressionism. Now her father's paintings are going to be featured in a show in New York and the whole family is going along. New York is a hustling, bustling city like no other in the world, and Charlotte records it all in her colorful journal.

Illustrated with striking museum reproductions, beautiful watercolor paintings, and collages, the book also includes biographical sketches of the featured painters. Charlotte's exciting journey to the city that never sleeps will make any reader shout, "I love New York!"

Publishers Weekly

After taking readers first to Giverny (PW called Charlotte in Giverny a "charming volume... part faux diary, part scrapbook"), and then to Paris, young Charlotte Glidden explores the Big Apple as it was in 1894, in the paper-over-board Charlotte in New York by Joan MacPhail Knight, illus. by Melissa Sweet. She arrives by ship in New York Harbor to spy Lady Liberty and travels by horse-drawn carriage past "skyscrapers" on Fifth Avenue. Vintage subway maps and photo reproductions add authenticity to Sweet's inviting illustrations. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.