A Street Through Time

By Steve Noon (illustrator),

Book cover of A Street Through Time: A 12,000 Year Journey Along the Same Street

Book description

Have you ever wondered what your street was like thousands of years ago? This illustrated history book for children takes you on a 12,000-year journey to find out the story of a single street.

Think of the street you live on. Now think of how it may have looked in…

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1 author picked A Street Through Time as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book takes us through a visual journey of how one street has changed over its long history, providing us with a glimpse of its shared and divergent economic and religious history as well as the many ways that bridges and buildings have changed from Stone Age to the Industrial Revolution, to the present and possible future.

The carefully rendered illustrations provide ample settings for discovering new things in each different period of life on the street.

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