By Trolley Past Thimbledon Bridge - Hardcover

"This is the work of two masters, who will take children on an exciting passage through time and illusion with their careful blending of words and pictures." --Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Coretta Scott King Award winning author and illustrator

"What a joy to read and reread! Truly a treasure! Bileck and Bryan will bewitch generations of readers." --Leslie Tryon, author and illustrator

"This trolley ride took me back to my own childhood, complete with the sound memory of the clank of change in the fare box. Now, the special stop I'd like to make is when the trolley passes Timbuctu." --Henrietta Mays Smith, professor emerita, University of South Florida, Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

"With echoes of Lear and Stevenson, this journey into the land of dreams pairs a detailed Old World setting with a pulsing four-beat rhythm to pull readers into its magical realm . . . . Masterful wordplay, alliteration, imagery, and rhyme contribute to this 29-stanza poem, printed in its entirety at the opening and then woven throughout the densely populated pages in a hand-printed text . . . . Bileck and Bryan capture the stuff of dreams in this mesmerizing and multifaceted pageant." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Lines of prose are scattered among the illustrations, which will dazzle the eyes and stimulate the imagination. By Trolley Past Thimbledon Bridge has literally been decades in the making, but this beautiful picture book has been completely worth the wait." --Holly Scudero, sanfranciscobookreview.com