On This Spot is a virtual time machine, transporting one spot in New York City—and you—back through history. It begins with the race of rumble of today’s New York but when you turn the page, you travel back 175 years where, on that same spot, carriages bumped and pigs raced across cobblestones. Turn again and visit New Amsterdam. Again and see a Lenape Indian trail crossing this spot. Traveling back over 540 million years, readers will see glaciers, dinosaurs, towering mountains, and much, much more.

• One of the Top Five Picture Books of 2004 --The Washington Post
• Junior Library Guild Selection
• Children's Literature Association of Utah's Beehive Award Nominee

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"Brilliantly conceived" -- Child Magazine

"This imaginative, beautifully illustrated book offers an unbeatable way to introduce children to what the poet Philip Larkin called ‘the long perspectives.’" --The Washington Post