THE SKYSCRAPER

by Yen Liang ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 10, 1958

Here's an opening wedge into comprehension of city planning, for the pre-school child of the city. Few small town or rural area children would find meaningful the conception of a depressed area, miraculously transformed by an architect and his aides into a modern wonderland. Yen Liang, himself an architect, presents a crowded tenement section of a sprawling old city as a place of cluttered darkness where no tree grows, and children have no place to play. Then the citizens wake up; the architects, the engineers, the bankers, the builders, the workmen and their machines come together, and in place of the crowded houses comes a hole in the ground, then a giant building -- a skyscraper- leaving lots of room for parks and playgrounds and the sun.

Pub Date: Sept. 10, 1958

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1958

Categories: CHILDREN'S