Miroslav sasek books to read

Series of children's travel books

This Is is a series of children's travel books written and illustrated by Czech author Miroslav Sasek between and ^[1]

Sasek originally intended to write three books (This Is Paris, This Is London and This Is Rome); however, as a result of those titles' popularity, Sasek ultimately extended the series to 18 books.

Four of the This Is books were adapted into movie shorts by Weston Woods in the early s: This Is New York, This Is Venice, This Is Israel and This Is Ireland.^[2]

The This Is series was published in the United Kingdom by W. H. Allen & Co. and in the United States by The Macmillan Company, and in translation in several other countries.

In , after those series went out of print, the Rizzoli publishing firm began reissuing some of the titles, although not in the original publication order.^[3] In these books, outdated facts were updated at the back of the boo This is... Series by Miroslav Sasek - Goodreads GIW