Green Place to Be, A, Ashley Benham Yazdani
Green Place to Be, A, Ashley Benham Yazdani
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Green Place to Be, A
The Creation of Central Park

Author: Ashley Benham Yazdani

Narrator: John Pruden

Unabridged: 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/08/2019

Synopsis

In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space. The people needed a green place to bea park with ponds to row on and paths for wandering through trees and over bridges. When a citywide contest solicited plans for creating a park out of barren swampland, Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted put their heads together to create the winning design, and the hard work of making their plans a reality began. By winter, the lake opened for skating. By the next summer, the waterside woodland known as the Ramble opened for all to enjoy. Meanwhile, sculptors, stonemasons, and master gardeners joined in to construct thirty-four unique bridges, along with fountains, pagodas, and band shells, making New Yorks Central Park a green gift to everyone.

About Ashley Benham Yazdani

Ashley Benham Yazdani is an author, an illustrator, a traveler, and a nature lover. She attended the California College of the Arts and went on to get her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. When not teaching illustration courses at the Maryland Institute, she enjoys reading and knitting. She currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more information, visit ashleyyazdani.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Calista on October 24, 2021

This is a great history of Central park.  I had no idea.  In 1858, the area of NYC known as Central park was a swamp.  It had been farms and other things, but they cut down all the forests and didn't plant anything.  It was a dirt swamp.  In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted decided there needed to be a p......more

Goodreads review by Skip on April 15, 2019

In 1858, New York City requested bids for the creation of Central Park. Two visionaries (Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmstead) created what would be a template for many other cities, turning a mud pit with squatters into the first of America's landscaped public parks. Ashley Yazdani has beautiful......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on June 17, 2019

This is a wonderful children's picture book about the history of Central Park in NYC. While it does mention that the park's location was a thriving African-American community, that fact is relegated to one line in the text and a sentence about pigs wondering the land and the foul smell precedes that......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on January 24, 2021

i found this on the libby app as an audio book... and was surprised to see it was only 24 minutes long. and then, with the amount of effort put into orchestral music and background noises (laughing? birds? wind? light chatter?) and the oddly emphasized short sentences, figured it’s probably original......more

Goodreads review by Sara - thelookingglassreads on March 26, 2019

An entertaining and informative book about the creators/creation of Central Park. I didn't know anything about the history of Central Park prior to reading this and it educated me quite a lot! We learn about how Frederick Law Olmsted a Calvert Vaux came up with the idea for the park and how they did......more

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