This Is... (book series)
This Is... is a series of children's travel books written and illustrated by Czech author Miroslav Sasek between 1959 and 1974.
Sasek originally intended to write three books ; however, as a result of those titles' popularity, Sasek ultimately extended the series to 18 books.
Four of the This Is books were adapted into movie shorts by Weston Woods in the early 1960s: This Is New York, This Is Venice, This Is Israel and This Is Ireland.
The This Is series was published in the United Kingdom by W. H. Allen & Co. and in the United States by The Macmillan Company, and in translation in several other countries. In 2003, after those series went out of print, the Rizzoli publishing firm began reissuing some of the titles, although not in the original publication order. In these books, outdated facts were updated at the back of the book but the original artwork was preserved.
Books in the series
- This Is Paris
- This Is London
- This Is Rome
- This Is New York
- This Is Edinburgh
- This Is Munich
- This Is Venice
- This Is San Francisco
- This Is Israel
- This Is Cape Canaveral
- This Is Ireland
- This Is Hong Kong
- This Is Greece
- This Is Texas
- This Is the United Nations
- This Is Washington, D.C.
- This Is Australia
- This Is Historic Britain
- ''This Is the World: A Global Treasury''