"Atlas of Lost Cities" - Aude De Tocqueville

I picked this up expecting it to have a chapter about Atlantis: speculations, theories, fun CGI pictures of what it might have looked like... However, this book is about real cities. It's a fascinating mixture of storytelling and history. The cities are all over the world, including North America, and the author visited the ruins of each one.

Ever think about where Babylon would be today? What is Hiroshima like today? Pompeii? Want to see a modern-day ghost town? Did you know... "The ghost town in [the Bond film] Skyfall really does exist - off the coast of Japan." pg.84.

Read Also:

Masada by Neil Waldman. (The city of Masada is included in the book.)

Christina Balit's Atlantis: the legend of a lost city. (Atlantis is not in the book.)

Simon Garfield's On the Map: a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks.

"Wait" - Antoinette Portis

3 words. 3 words constitute the entire vocabulary of this book! Always genius when intonation tells a story and changes the meaning.

His mother wants him to "hurry" or they'll miss their bus. A boy wants to "wait" and see all the things there are to see in the city. Is the time spent worth it? Find out inside!

Read Also:

Uri Shulevitz's Dusk has a boy walking with his grandfather enjoying the city at sunset.

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena follows a boy and his grandmother seeing the sights of the city as they cross San Francisco.

Jez Alborough's Hug also has 3 words and depends entirely on intonation to tell the story.