cover image Once Upon a Time in Great Britain: A Travel Guide to the Sights and Settings of Your Favorite Children's Stories

Once Upon a Time in Great Britain: A Travel Guide to the Sights and Settings of Your Favorite Children's Stories

Melanie Wentz. St. Martin's Press, $15.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-312-28338-4

And if traveling plans include England... Once Upon a Time in Great Britain: A Travel Guide to the Sights and Settings of Your Favorite Children's Stories by Melanie Wentz is the guide for young readers to get. Each chapter focuses on a single story (including Peter Pan, the Harry Potter books and E. Nesbit's The Railway Children) and offers a brief biography of the author and illustrator as well as information about the places connected with the story and how to visit them. B&w photographs appear throughout. (Aug.)