This brilliant book has everything. Take a tour through The Metropolitan Museum of Art with this beautifully illustrated book. Each room of the museum has a double page spread and features many of the real items that you could see if you were to visit in real life.

There is also the story of Stevie, who is lost in the museum and follows a trail of items dropped by her little brother, to try and find her way back to her family.

Near the end of the book, there are pages full of information and images about some of the many things Stevie has seen on her trip around the museum, with page references so that you can check back to see the rooms they were in.

This is a book that will keep everyone entertained for hours as there is so much to do. Just enjoy the story, solve the clues to find Stevie, learn about art from around the world, answer the questions and spot the objects hidden in the illustrations. There is so much to do!

This is an incredible children's book with excellent activities and lovely illustrations. I2m sue children would love to read it before and after visiting museums!

First of all, I just love the art style of this book. Second, the idea is great and I think this could be a good resource for teaching kids what to expect at a museum. Third, it has the joy of where's wally books (though I wish it had the visual of what we're looking for on each page rather than the whole list at the start and then only mentioning it in the text.
But what I loved most was the diversity. The first page with the hide and seek I immediately noticed on my first scan of the page a wheelchair user (and it appeared to be more specialist than the generic push wheelchairs such as what you can borrow in places) and also an amputee, These small things are great inclusions!

After seeing many link-ups between DK publishers and the New York Met museum, it was a bit of a disappointment to come to this one. I thought we'd have a Where's Wally kind of thing, but what it is is only half that – the book is far too concerned with the narrative of a young lass trying to reconnect with her family in the museum's Great Hall. This means every spread has far too much text for a visual book, and while there is a set list of recurring cast members, a dozen or so fixed items for us to try and keep track of, and a prompt on every page for us to look for, there isn't that much. The book might have been redeemed if it was happy to admit what it was – an easy way for the young to get used to what museums look like, and what the Met in particular holds – but that wasn't too easy either with quite ungainly CG imagery to convey all the galleries and museum spaces. The whole thing is improved rather by the 'catalogue' telling us what the characters walked past, and inviting us to return to each and every spread, but this did not quite have the personable manner about it that would allow it to gel with a young historian.