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Rural areas cover 97 percent of the United States—yet more than 80 percent of the US population lives in urban areas. What is life like for the millions of children who populate our nation’s cities? aspect of their lives!

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In this charming, warm-hearted, often very funny book, Katie Burke takes us into the minds of children--a place we should all spend more time! Not only a wonderfully insightful kid's eye guide to San Francisco, Urban Playground is also an interactive manual for getting into the minds of your own--and your friends'--children. Reading its sweet--and sometimes quirky--interviews, is to see San Francisco with the freshest eyes possible. --Janis Cooke Newman, author of A Master Plan for Rescue If you're seeking the honest truth from kids, you will find few better resources than Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco, by San Francisco writer Katie Burke. Burke's StoryCorps-like interviews, quoting kids on everything from pupusas to Pride Week, reveal that the Bay Area remains a fertile ground for smart, confident, and fun-loving kids. Says a seven-year-old girl who's on the road to becoming an archaeologist, 'It usually takes about maybe a month or a year to dig up one dinosaur.' After reading this book, I wouldn't be surprised if she or another San Francisco kid figured out how to dig one up sooner!. --Sally Smith, Editor and Co-Publisher, Noe Valley Voice Children make the best tour guides. In Katie Burke's lively Urban Playground series, young city-dwellers share how they experience all aspects of city life, from restaurants, holidays, people, and parks to pets, schools, sports, shops, and activities. Their observations are moving and thought-provoking, and reveal what makes a city interesting and unique. This book will appeal to adults and kids who wish to see (and re-see) San Francisco. --Christina Clancy, The Second Home A fascinating peek into the minds of San Francisco's children. They are more insightful, creative and weird--in the best of ways!--than I'd ever imagined. --Julia Scheeres, author of A Thousand Lives

In this charming, warm-hearted, often very funny book, Katie Burke takes us into the minds of children--a place we should all spend more time! Not only a wonderfully insightful kid's eye guide to San Francisco, Urban Playground is also an interactive manual for getting into the minds of your own--and your friends'--children. Reading its sweet--and sometimes quirky--interviews, is to see San Francisco with the freshest eyes possible. --Janis Cooke Newman, author of A Master Plan for Rescue

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Katie Burke is a family law attorney and writer in San Francisco. Prior to entering law school, she earned a master's degree in counseling. She owns Burke Family Law and writes Noe Kids, a monthly column for The Noe Valley Voice, in which she spotlights children ages four to twelve who live in San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood, after interviewing them on various themes. She also regularly contributes judicial and attorney profiles to San Francisco Attorney, the Bar Association of San Francisco's magazine. Burke has been published by HarperCollins, the L.A. Times, The Journal of Law and Social Challenges, Trial Insider, BASF Bulletin (the Bar Association of San Francisco's newspaper), Legal by the Bay (the Bar Association of San Francisco's blog), the San Francisco Chronicle, The Examiner, The Fairfield Citizen-News, The SoMa Literary Review, Women's Voices, The Sitting Room, The Compass, Culture-Voice, and The Street Spirit. She has been broadcast for KQED, read at Litquake, and taught writing at City College of San Francisco.

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