Bobo & Lumen's Los Angeles Travel Guide
A Kids' Adventure Book of Maps, Missions, Games and Real LA Stories
LOS ANGELES, EXPLORED BY TWO CATS AND ONE CURIOUS READER Bobo and Lumen are Bengal cat brothers from the Navet Nebula, exploring Earth one city at a time. This stop is Los Angeles, and they have brought maps, missions and a lot of questions. This is a hybrid guide: genuinely useful before the trip, genuinely fun while standing in front of the real thing. WHAT IS INSIDE Meet the city first. Where Los Angeles sits between the San Gabriel Mountains and the Pacific. Why the ground shakes about ten thousand times a year. Why the river wears a concrete coat. What Tovaangar means, and why place names like Topanga and Cahuenga end the way they do. Ten full landmark adventures. Griffith Observatory, free to enter since the day it opened in 1935. The Hollywood Sign, which began life in 1923 as a temporary billboard reading HOLLYWOODLAND. The La Brea Tar Pits, the only actively excavated Ice Age fossil site in a city anywhere in the world. El Pueblo and Olvera Street. Yaanga and Union Station. Angels Flight and Grand Central Market. Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Watts Towers, built by one man over thirty-three years. Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center. Santa Monica Pier, where Route 66 runs out of continent. Twelve more places to spot, so the book covers more than twenty-two real Los Angeles sites. Food, film, makers and traditions. Taco stands and market stalls, how a movie is actually made, the inventors and builders who shaped the basin, and the celebrations that fill its streets. Games and on-location activities. A destination quiz, a city spotter checklist to tick off in the wild, a matching game, and a design mission with real drawing room. A travel time capsule and a signed explorer certificate to finish the journey. HOW CHILDREN USE IT Reading pages are for reading. Activity pages are clearly marked and invite writing and drawing. Nothing is cluttered, nothing talks down, and every fact is grounded in museum, monument, park and city sources. WARM, FUNNY, AND ACTUALLY ACCURATE Lumen plans. Bobo improvises. Between them they turn a big, confusing, wonderful city into something a young traveller can hold, understand and remember. Ideal for a first trip to California, a long flight, a coastal road trip, or a rainy afternoon spent planning one.
- Pages
- 48
- Size
- 6 × 9 in
- Format
- Premium color, fully illustrated paperback