Description

Explore over 60 of the world’s most amazing cities with this activity book for urban explorers. Fill in New York’s famous skyline, design a Mexican wrestling mask, spot the difference between Viennese dancing horses, and add your own mural to a Melbourne graffiti wall.

Start your tour by decorating a totem pole in Vancouver, Canada, and then travel around the world before finding and drawing the world’s fastest fish – the black marlin – found near Apia, the capital of Samoa.

With a mix of colourful illustrations, photos and facts about each destination, plus over 250 stickers, The Cities Activity Book introduces you to our world’s amazing diversity of people, places and cultures.

Activities include:

Counting the number of windows on the White House in Washington DC
Creating the famous Hollywood sign on the hills overlooking Los Angeles
Striking up a conversation with a local in Jamaica
Completing the colourful costumes of Carnival goers in Rio de Janeiro
Spotting the difference between llamas in Cuzco
Adding pirate ships and hoards of gold to Cartagena’s old port
Drawing a puffin from Iceland
Filling in the famous sights along London’s River Thames
Joining the dots to complete the enormous Eiffel Tower in Paris
Matching the aardvark to its yummy termite nest in Timbuktu
Creating your own colourful matatu minibus in Nairobi
Building the world’s tallest skyscraper in Dubai
Finding your way through the maze of Beijing’s ancient Forbidden City
Counting the commuters in Tokyo’s super-busy metro system
Completing the outfits of Maoris doing a traditional dance

Also available:

The Travel Activity Book

About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids – an imprint of the world’s leading travel authority Lonely Planet – published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!