Not For Parents New York: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

by Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

This is not a guidebook. And it's definitely 'not-for-parents'. It is the real inside story about one of the world's most famous cities - New York. In this book you'll hear fascinating tales about towering skyscrapers and deep subways, a naked cowboy, and the Yankees loudest fans.

Check out cool stories about hot dogs and snapping alligators, bulls in the stock exchange and sports on the street. You'll find superheroes, famous battles, cops, cooks, and millions of rats.


Which lady moved to New York from Paris in 350 pieces?
Did Martians really invade New York in 1938?
Which skyscraper was meant to double as an airship dock?
Would you like to spend a night inside an elephant?
This book shows you a New York your parents probably don't even know about.

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Klay Lamprell

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, children's books, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.

TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)

*#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013

Genres: Nonfiction, Travel, Geography

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2011

About the author

OUR STORY
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.

Reviews

[Jeff Beardsley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I must first admit that I am a bit of a connoisseur and collector of travel books. Furthermore, I actually like to read these travel guides, even if I'm not planning on visiting the subject destination at any point in the near future. I find these guides a really good way to get to know a place. As a parent with children, I've added the "traveling with kids" and the "guide for kids" type books to my travel genre reading list. These "Not-For-Parents" Lonely Planet guidebooks are among the best I've found for families with children that love to travel. In some respects, they lend a lot of appreciation to what DK has done with their guidebooks over the years. These guidebooks are picture intensive and have lots of eye candy. While it doesn't contain the amount of textual detail often found in the DK variants, it is presented in an orderly and excessively easy layout which makes for a quick, enjoyable, and educational read for the destination. The book is definitely not geared toward touring the must see sites. Instead, it is designed to visualize and describe objects and people travelers are likely to encounter while walking down the street. I like this method, which encourages exploration and discovery during travel rather than a rote logistics method of seeing sites. For all of these reasons, I highly recommend this book for you and your children's travels to New York City.

[Crystal]

Page about police has tons of police in many different vehicles with weapons drawn and angry faces converging on a young boy with a slingshot in his hand about to shoot at a soda can on the ground. His skin color is not quite as light as the police, but isn't much darker. He looks scared. He's wearing basketball shorts, a sports jersey of some kind and a ball cap. I am puzzled about how readers are meant to take that given that the title is "New York's Finest" and all of the text is light, breezy, and very positive about the police. Is it irony - a political statement - a joke?

Native content exists, but is on the skimpy side and a bit white-washed.

There are many interesting facts about places in the city and the illustrations are generally interesting and entertaining. It gave me some good ideas about where I may want to visit while I am in NYC.

[Terri · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is for parents. Lots of information.

[Emmy Soliman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Zoals de andere boekjes van het serie. veel illustraties, minder waardige inhoud.
ik bedoel niet alleen voor volwassenen. maar ook voor kinderen. de informatie zijn niet zo belangrijk. maar in iedere geval is het beter dan het USA boek

[Peyton · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was great to learn about the twin towers the superheroes that were taken place in New York, the baseball teams of New York, Building and inventions, What stuff used to be and the best thing to learn about was the history of the statue of liberty.

[Mayrocks · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book was cool and informative. I liked the speech bubbles-they spazzed things up a bit.

[Guylaine Thibodeau · Rating 3 out of 5]

A city that I always wanted to visit and interesting facts that you do not see if "average traveller book or internet site".

Good non-fiction book