Curious children will learn to count to 10 using some of Baltimore’s most famous symbols and attractions —the Maryland Zoo, the Baltimore Orioles, the Baltimore Ravens, Pink Flamingos, the Blue Crabs, and the iconic homes known as the Painted Ladies—in this board book featuring dazzling colors, and bold, clear design. The final page includes a complete location list in both English and Spanish to help parents locate the symbols and attractions and plan an entertaining trip to Baltimore.
123 Baltimore is blissfully free of dogma, but full of love. Every Baltimorean will recognize the colors used on page four, on which four footballs bounce around the page's edges; visitors will smile at page nine, which features Baltimore's unofficial city symbol, the pink flamingo; but it may take a true city nerd (me!) to identify the seven funky robots on page seven as the World's First Robot Family by DeVon Smith on permanent display at the American Visionary Art Museum.