A gay and entrancing picture book of city sights and sounds, feelings and fun, from Airplane and Buses to Your House and the Zoo. For though Phyllis McGinley writes her witty and charming city verses for city lovers of any age, she has chosen to arrange them in A-B-C order on the general principle that it never did anyone a bit of harm to know his alphabet. And Helen Stone has drawn her beautiful and exciting pictures, with gorgeous splashes of color across the pages, around handsome big initials.

It is a delightful gift book for everyone, from four-year-olds who will probably favor the pictures of the Good Humor man and the organ grinder, to the grown-ups who will wonder if the team of Phyllis McGinley an Helen Stone ever did anything lovelier that "Quiet Sunday Avenues" and "Windows in the Dark."

From the dust jacket