Ali Mitgutsch
Ali Mitgutsch is known as the father of the ‘wimmelbook’ – that is a large format wordless picturebook teeming with people and activities to spot.
This board version of Rundherum In Meiner Stadt (Around in my City) was the first in a series of similar books the illustrator created in the 1960s.
The seven spreads, together with the front and back cover that forms an eighth image, show busy scenes within a city, from a construction site to a dockside to a fun fair. All are packed with incident, and the fun is to pore over the pictures to see how many different things you can find.