The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Collier, Bryan

Uptown

32 pp. | Holt | June, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-5721-8 $$15.95

(4) K-3 A young boy proudly takes the reader uptown to tour his Harlem, one of the world's most famous neighborhoods. From small intimate places such as the local barbershop to the world-famous Apollo Theater, the reader's senses are bathed in the sights and sounds that make Harlem this small boy's paradise. Collier's watercolor and collage illustrations, showing contemporary city scenes, are bold and striking, but at times they are too ornate for this lighthearted book.

Reviewer: Deborah L. Thompson