12 Children’s Books That Take You On A Big City Adventure

From the Brooklyn Bridge to the Lower East Side to Washington Heights, your kiddos can see NYC-based stories come alive by visiting the actual locations featured in some of their favorite books.

By Ashly Grzyb January 14, 2016

Have your kids ever wondered where exactly Knuffle Bunny was lost or what it might be like to live at the Plaza like Eloise? From the Brooklyn Bridge to the Lower East Side to Washington Heights, your kiddos can see NYC-based stories come alive by visiting the actual locations featured in some of their favorite books. Learn about historic landmarks, ride on public transportation, or walk the streets of a new neighborhood with a dozen locally set stories.

6. What Zeesie Saw on Delancey Street

By Elsa Okon Rael and illustrated by Marjorie Priceman

Set in the 1930s, Zeesie lives in a Jewish-American tenement on the Lower East Side. For her seventh birthday, she goes on an adventure and encounters many sights, sounds, and smells as she passes the tailor shop, chicken yard and “probably the biggest movie theatre in the whole world” on Delancey Street.

Make the story come alive at: The Tenement Museum, 108 Orchard St. at Delancey St., Lower East Side

Find these books and more at your local neighborhood bookstore!

Share your favorite children’s book about the Big Apple in the comments below!

–Ashly Grzyb