One thing my husband and I tried to instil in our son from a very young age is the love for travelling, the want to see new places and eventually experience life in a new country rather than approaching a holiday just from a tourist point of view. Well, it seems we were successful! He took to travelling even a little too well, we now have a six year old who enjoys going places and as he discovers the world on map he makes requests for places to visit. He is fascinated by New York and he asked in several occasions to go there in words and with subliminal messages through his drawings. He’s impatient to see the Statue of Liberty and he keeps drawing pictures of it. For as much as we are planning to visit New York in the near future, with school and work commitments, realistically it’s not going to happen before spring so in the meanwhile he was given a fantastic book by his daddy on his return from a business trip to London. A Walk in New York by Salvatore Rubbino published by Walker Books, which tells the story of a day in New York of a little boy and his dad. The book has fantastic illustrations and little facts about New York’s famous landmarks scattered all the way through including a fold out image of the Empire State Building.

A Walk in New York is just a little taste of a future trip that he is looking forward to  – like the rest of us – but for now it is his favourite read.