Where To?: A Trip Around the Neighborhood

Embark on a city adventure as eight kids navigate urban life, exploring essential places, learning about community helpers, and fostering confidence and independence in young readers.

In Where To? A Trip Around the Neighborhood, join eight adventurous friends as they embark on a journey through their city, tackling everyday challenges and exploring exciting places like the post office, photo studio, museum, and more. Each child faces unique situations, offering young readers a chance to navigate urban life, solve problems, and discover the wonders hidden in familiar places.

This engaging book not only introduces children to the layout of a city and essential services but also empowers them with problem-solving skills. Packed with educational delights, it combines practical information with fascinating facts about community helpers and professions. Fostering confidence and independence, this playful guide encourages kids to explore their surroundings with curiosity. Perfect for young readers aged 6-9, this book promises an entertaining and educational experience, instilling a sense of capability and sparking interest in the city's intricacies. With vibrant illustrations and hidden details to discover, this book ensures that learning about the world around us is both fun and enlightening.

Magda Gargulakova has a degree in Art History and is a co-founder and also curator of the OFF/FORMAT gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, which exhibits and promotes contemporary progressive art, mostly by young artists. She worked for a time in marketing, but her love affair with books has been a long one. For OFF/FORMAT, she has edited and published several art publications. Since 2019, she has added to this experience as an editor of literature for very young readers at Albatros Media, using her two daughters for quality control.

Tomas Kopecky is an illustrator of children's books and computer games, working as part of a creative duo with his wife Tereza. He began his career as a pixel art mobile game designer in Prague, and in 2019, he illustrated his first book, A Bug Hotel. In his free time, Tomas enjoys the countryside, mountain biking, skateboarding, board games, and - above all - spending time with his family, including his two daughters and his dog Karlik.