One of a small set of four little books where an alien shows its audience what human life is like; this explaining city buildings, importance and business. It has a habit almost of raising issues – what causes a city to spring up? – and not fully answering them, but with the variety of cities there are of course few hard-and-fast answers. I don't think this set would be vitally important, but I wouldn't see them as a complete waste of primary school resources. Three and a half stars.

This is a Non-Fiction Children's book that I read to my twin boys. My boys enjoyed this book, and they really loved all the pictures of buildings and cities. I really loved the facts throughout this book. We live in the country, and I really hate being in big cities with a ton of people. My boys are learning about the difference between city and country in school right now, so I felt this book is great to read to them. I received an ARC of this book. This review is my own honest opinion about the book like all my reviews are.