By Carolyn Vaughan

Introducing a brand new Fandex idea: the travel guide, perfect for families planning a trip and a great souvenir or gift to bring back home. A natural marriage of format and subject, each guide combines unique, individually die-cut cards with full-color photographs and illustrations and a lively, fact-filled text.

Launching the travel guides is New York City, one of the most visited, family-friendly destinations in the U.S. New York City covers the highlights--museums, neighborhoods, parks, famous buildings--and those unexpected, distinctly New York institutions like taxis, delis, even the coffee shop known to millions of Seinfeld fans. There's the Brooklyn Bridge, and the story of P. T. Barnum leading a parade of 21 elephants across its span to prove the structure was safe. The Statue of Liberty, Chinatown, Times Square, the Bronx Zoo, the UN (not technically in New York, or even America, but an international zone owned by all UN member countries).