Where To?: A Trip Around the Neighborhood

PreS-Gr 4–Imported from the Czech Republic, this title features a diverse group of children who face a series of challenges and need the help of readers to solve their problems and make their way through town to find the different resources available to assist them. For example, one girl wants to get a photo taken of herself as a gift for her mother. Where should she go? Readers are given four choices: observatory, museum, police station, or photo studio. Detailed illustrations of the photo studio and its equipment follow, along with a page providing more textual information about the location. Subsequent locations include the library, police station, observatory, and the vet. The visit to the police station includes the text, “When investigators find criminals, they lock them up in a holding cell.” The idealized town and freedom of the children to roam might seem somewhat fantastical to many American readers.