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    “All Around Bustletown” Series

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    Prestel’s new All Around Bustletown series (Board Book $12.95; Ages 2-5; 14 pages) by Rotraut Susanne Berner follows the activities of a charming, bustling town over the course of all four seasons! If you look closer, you’ll recognize the same characters appear on every page, each with their own story.  

    In the tradition of Richard Scarry and Where’s Waldo, this series encourages kids to return again and again to each spread, following along with the characters and inventing their own stories. They’ll recognize parts of their own world, while also learning about the endless ways we live, work, and play in each season. Kids will spend hours poring over these oversized pages of vibrantly detailed drawings in this joyfully illustrated series.

    The All Around Bustletown book series will be comprised of four books, some still waiting to be launched:

    All Around Bustletown: Spring

    A house gets a top-to-bottom spring cleaning and farm fields are being prepared for planting. People are shopping, commuting to work, constructing buildings, and meeting friends. If you look closer, you’ll recognize the same characters appear on every page, each with their own story. There’s Wilfred the jogger slipping on a banana peel and his friend Erica who comes to help him. Three cheerful nuns shop, chat, and share a snack at the cafe. A stork surveys all the activity from the sky while a mischievous fox scampers through the streets.  (2/18/2020)

    All Around Bustletown: Summer

    Means flowers, picnics, thunderstorms, and bike rides. It’s a busy time for construction workers, farmers, and house painters. Playgrounds are filled with kids and vacationers are boarding trains in droves. In the sky a pair of balloons drifts through every scene, while on the street people of all ages make their way to an outdoor birthday party. There’s even a big storm that turns umbrellas inside out, sends hats flying, but ends in a lovely rainbow. (4/21/2020)

    All Around Bustletown: Fall

    The leaves are blowing off the trees and the birds are flying south in this book. Farmers are preparing the fields for winter and kids are back in school. And look, there’s a water main break that’s causing havoc and a chimney sweeper perched on a roof! Each time readers look at these delightfully detailed spreads they’ll discover something new, whether it’s what’s for sale at the outdoor market or how many pumpkins they can spot on a single page. Familiar characters appear on each page–a maestro and a violinist, a balloon-toting nun, and a mom with her baby. All the activity culminates in a harvest celebration lit by dozens of paper lanterns in every shape and size. (7/21/2020)

    All Around Bustletown: Winter

    Winter has arrived and everywhere you look people are embracing the season. At home there’s baking, reading, and sleeping in, while on the farm the fields are fallow and quiet. Outside people are bundled up against the cold as they are skating, sledding, and running to catch a crowded bus. The town’s buildings are alive with activity–piano lessons, a dentist appointment, shopping for presents, and visiting the museum. (10/2019)

    WIN IT: (1) US winner will receive all 4 books in the Prestel Junior’s All Around Bustletown series

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    5. gloria patterson says

      My favorite season was always spring…………. All the flowers, fresh cut grass, trees starting to bloom, air smell wonderful…………………………. THIS YEAR not so much

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    10. Michelle S says

      I think it’s a tie for me between spring with all the beautiful flowers and fall with the beautiful fall leaves/colors.

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    15. SHIRLEY SYMON says

      AUTUMN is my FAVORITE season because you can do the same things you do in the summer but with cooler temps and less people.

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    24. Linda G says

      I love spring time, just warm enough and a great time to get outside and work in the yard and take walks and bike ride, not to hot and not to cold!

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