Upside-Down Town

by Frank Emerson Andrews, Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator)

Japanese edition of Upside-down Town by F. Emerson Andrews. The Upside-down Town is where everything is opposite. Kids do the work while parents play, the medicine tastes great while the candy is horrible, and houses are built underground while the basement is above ground!

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1958

Reviews

[Ashley Ford · Rating 5 out of 5]

An all-time favorite from childhood and it was such a delight to re-read it with my kids. Like an illustrated precursor to The Phantom Tollbooth. So fun.

[Tonya · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been looking for this book for years, was one of my favorites when I was very young. I cannot believe I at least found a version with the cover that I remember. My favorite memory from the book from reading it almost 40 years ago is that the medicine tastes wonderful and their houses are one story above ground and the rest is underground.

[Pelos Parados · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read Upside Downtown and my imagination took off. During 1960, I lived in Monrovia California. I had just graduated from six Grade. That Summer, The local Library conducted a Summer Reading Program, to encourage reading. I joined. The goal was to read 50 books by the end of Summer. Each kid that joined, got a chart with the map of the continental USA & Hawaii. When you read a book, A book report was needed as proof. Once verified, The Librarian would take a shinney red star and glue it on the US Map that had the States on it. The goal was a Red Star on each State. At the end of Summer, special mention would be awarded to children who completed reading 50 books.
A little girl and myself, read 50 books and had our picture taken, and were featured in the local Monrovia Newspaper. Upside Downtown was one of those 50 books I read, along with the complete books of OZ, by L.Frank Baum.

[Melrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book sometime during grade school. I became fixated with the idea, hanging my head over the couch and imagining that the ceiling was the floor. I still remember it fondly and am thrilled to see it listed here.

[N.K. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm so excited I found this book! I read it in the late 60's as a girl...my favourite library book. Took it out many times and loved the story of a town where everything is done backwards. Very imaginative and it takes a child out of the every day 'have to do it this way' kind of regime and into some fun.