| Old Penn Station |  | Author: William Low
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1
ISBN: 1428739823
EAN: 9781428739826
ASIN: 1428739823
Publication Date: January 2007
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 History Lesson December 29, 2007
I bought this book for my 5 year old son, so that I could read to him while he looked at the pictures. Unusual in that a children's book deplicts an event of destruction by short sighted people, that took place 40 years ago. I walked up into Penn Station after debarking a LIRR train in 1958 when I was 5 years old. Seeing the huge skylight, I new I had arrived at someplace special. My 5 year old son recently did the same, however it is nothing more than a underground catacomb today, and you cannot recapture the excitement of old Penn Station.
 Grandeur Revisited December 20, 2007
William Low masterfully uses mixed media (oil and digital) to illuminate the grandeur of New York's bygone Pennsylvania Station of the early 20th century. Most readers will never have been there in that time, but reading and EXPERIENCING this book will place the reader there. The visuals are so evocative that they invite the creative will of the other four senses to play along. Part of the book's power is that the real thing can no longer be witnessed. But this book makes a wonderful alternative. Small historical inaccuracies (the statues' are carved from marble, not granite) are moot in comparison to the overall effect the book will leave on your imagination.
 This is a child's picture book October 24, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I agree with Shawson, this is a child's introduction to Penn Station. Not much text and there is an error in the discussion of the Penn Station statuary. The statuary was carved out of marble, not pink granite as the author states.
What a mistake August 26, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a mere child's book. Never thought that was what I was ordering. Looked at description on line. Never got impression that this was a kid's book.
Wonderful! July 30, 2007
Finally a book that dosn't dumb it down for kids. We received it 2 weeks ago and we still love exploring it again again. It seems there is always something new we find in the illistrations.
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