Lonely Planet Global Limited City Trails - Rome

Great book for the grandchildren - and the parents enjoyed it with them

I would recommend this book for children over 8 years old. It's a great city book. It has a lots of fun facts. My children 8 & 11 loved it, us too as adults we found in it great facts about Rome.

Our kids devoured this book multiple times before we visited Rome and even though I’d been twice before, I found a few things that I didn’t know about myself. The book is easy to read and well illustrated. Packed full of photos, illustrations and adventures!

This is a beautiful book with fantastic illustrations and an engaging color palette. It includes a good variety of historical background information and sightseeing locations. However, it is a better picture book for browsing only. It is not a good travel book for kids to plan their own adventures. Who has ever heard of a travel book without maps?! No maps, no directions, no coordinating subway/bus maps. The printing is exceptionally small, almost too small to read. The book should have been made larger to accommodate the text. The text is excellent, but it printed as if the publisher never expected the kid/parent to read it. On one hand, our family really enjoyed how engaging the book appeared, but we were disappointed in its quality as a travel book. It shouldn’t be marketed as a travel book, but a geography book series.

My little boy has autism and going on holiday is a huge struggle of ours at times. This book gave us so much information in a child friendly way and he very much enjoyed the book too. He was able to read about places we would visit and he was much more relaxed about it.