London

The bobby and the nanny, the red double-decker bus and the milk cart, the bankers with melons and the children in school uniforms, the five o'clock tea and the disciplined queuing - Sasek shows with great humour the endearingly nostalgic details of the British capital and its inhabitants. And of course all the famous squares and buildings that still attract over 30 million visitors every year: St. Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge and Big Ben, Covent Garden by day and Picadilly Circus by night. When the book was published simultaneously in Germany and the USA in 1959, it was a huge success and received the New York Times award for the best illustrated children's book. London is a lovingly facsimile edition of the original, with updated information and data on today's London in the appendix.