This is Rome A Children's Classic

This is Rome, for examples is as informative as an Italian travel book and as gay as a Roman holiday. Sasek does a superb job of presenting the Eternal City as it might appear to a young tourist - as a kaleidoscopic array of strange and fascinating sights with its gaily garbed theological students, whizzing Vespas, imposing relics of antiquity, all of the things which make Rome like no other city in the world. - May Hill Argbuthnnot in Children and Books, 3rd ed., Scott, Foresman and Company, 1964, p.577 Sasek planned to end the This is series here before he realised how successful (and how much fun to do) they would be. He went on to complete 18 titles in the series.

M. Sasek was born in 1916 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. An author and illustrator, he is best remembered for his classic stories on the great cities of the world. He died in 1980.