Musical chairs and paperbacks: This Is San Francisco
Like most visitors to San Francisco, M. Sasek has fallen in love with that unusual city and has given it his best. His writing here is less guidebook-like and somewhat more informal than it has been. But at times one longs for just a few more words for those children who will view San Francisco only in the pages of the book...
The book opens with a sweeping view of the city as seen from Berkely, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. Further on there is a spectacular picture of the bridge, and for good measure the artist also swings the whole orange-red span across two pages. He handles the city's incredibly steep streets particularly well, as he does the cable cars and Chinatown...It will be difficult for readers to resist rushing out to see San Francisco again -- or for the first time.
Alice Dalgliesh, Musical chairs and paperbacks: This Is San Francisco, in Saturday Review, Vol. xlv, No. 28, July 21, 1962, p. 35.
