My Town is written and Illustrated by Ingela P. Arrhenius and is a big book. If you want to know the exact measurements then it is 18″ x 13.3″. As I said it is big.

This delightful children’s book is filled with beautiful drawings that are about places and items you will find in a town – not every town will have all of these places such as an airport or port, but other items like the bakery, bookshop, streetlights, dogs etc you’ll find in every town.

The book doesn’t have many words, just the names of the items being shown. It is more of a picture book than a storybook. I think the idea behind the book is great and I feel that young children will love not only the drawings and discovering new places, they will also love the size of it too.

However, as a parent, I can’t say that I love big oversized books. They are hard to read unless you lie them flat on the floor and hard to store too – This definitely won’t fit on a bookshelf.

But hey, this is a book for little children and not adults, so I’m sure they will adore learning the names of the places and items. I can see this being a book that is read over and over again.

About the Author

Swedish Ingela Peterson Arrhenius was born in 1967.

Art and design has always played a big part of Ingela’s life and before her career as an illustrator took off Ingela worked as an art director in Stockholm.

Ingela then moved on to study advertising and graphic design at an art school in Stockholm. In 1992 Ingela set up her own business as a freelance illustrator working on an international level cross advertising, design, publishing and editorial work.

She’s been commissioned for creating print patterns for fabrics, wallpaper, stationary as well as packaging, product design, home accessories and toys.

Ingela’s posters and designer toys are spread all around the world. She’s passionate about retro style in general which is clearly reflected in her work as well as her joy for typography and colour.

She lives in Stockholm with husband and two boys.