Town That Got Out of Town

by Robert Priest

When the residents of Boston leave town over Labor Day weekend, the city's buildings and landmarks decide to visit Portland, Maine.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879237864
• ISBN13: 9780879237868
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 12.4"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

Uniquely imaginative

Have you ever considered that buildings might get wanderlust just as people do? In this story, all the buildings in Boston decide to head out of town over a long weekend (after all of the people and animals have left on vacations of their own, of course). Boston gets a hankering to visit, of all things, its old friend Portland, Maine. (Needless to say, Portland is "very surprised" to see Boston!) The buildings visit with each other, then make it back to their home and settle onto their foundations just in time for the return of the Bostonians. My daughter is now almost 8 and has enjoyed this book for 5 years. It makes me laugh every time I read it with her. And since we are from the Boston area we can identify some of the individual buildings in the graphically-unique illustrations. This book is very much recommended, especially for local Bostonians.