City Walks With Kids guide books

Anyone who's tried a city holiday with kids will know that mainstream guidebooks just don't cut it. What they want to tell you about are the must-see sights, the ones you might have to queue hours to see. If you're lucky there might be two pages devoted to kids' attractions.

What I've always thought I could do with, however, is a list of playgrounds, nappy changing facilities, and museums where kids are allowed to touch. Restaurants with high chairs wouldn't go amiss either. Swimming pools, libraries, and so on.

It hadn't occurred to me that it might be equally useful to have a child's perspective on the adult stuff. Imagine a kindly uncle, native of Paris, New York or London, taking you for a stroll and pointing out the gargoyles on a famous church, or knowing how to lead you direct to the most interesting paintings for kids in an art gallery. That is what the City Walks With Kids series try to do.

Not a book, but a fold out map and a set of cards with 50 child-friendly walks through the city, these pepper every route with interesting sights. I hope they also mention those nappy-changing places too.