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There's a Map on My Lap! All About Maps

Author : Tish Rabe

Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers

Page : 49 pages

File Size : 47,18 MB

Release : 2002-09-24

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 0375810994

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Laugh and learn with fun facts about mapmakers, geography, compasses, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style and starring the Cat in the Hat! “You may travel the world, but no matter how far, with a map on your lap you will know where you are.” The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series combines beloved characters, engaging rhymes, and Seussian illustrations to introduce children to non-fiction topics from the real world! Go on a journey and learn: • how to read the latitude and longitude lines on a map • why a hiker uses a topographical map • why mapmakers use a scale and legends • and much more! Perfect for story time and for the youngest readers, There’s a Map on My Lap! All About Maps also includes an index, glossary, and suggestions for further learning. Look for more books in the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series! If I Ran the Horse Show: All About Horses Clam-I-Am! All About the Beach Miles and Miles of Reptiles: All About Reptiles A Whale of a Tale! All About Porpoises, Dolphins, and Whales Safari, So Good! All About African Wildlife Oh, the Lavas That Flow! All About Volcanoes Out of Sight Till Tonight! All About Nocturnal Animals What Cat Is That? All About Cats Once upon a Mastodon: All About Prehistoric Mammals Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today? All About Weather The Cat on the Mat: All About Mindfulness



How to Read Maps

Author : Arcturus Publishing

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 37,83 MB

Release : 2015-06

Category : Geography

ISBN : 9781784042110

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Book Description

Title of accompanying map: Map of the world (inserted in pocket attached to page [2] of cover).



Miss Rumphius

Author : Barbara Cooney

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 26,96 MB

Release : 1985-11-06

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1101654929

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A beloved classic—written by a beloved Caldecott winner—is lovelier than ever! Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went. Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award in the year of publication. To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of two-time Caldecott winner Barbara Cooney's best-loved book, the illustrations have been reoriginated, going back to the original art to ensure state-of-the-art reproduction of Cooney's exquisite artwork. The art for Miss Rumphius has a permanent home in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.



Reading Maps

Author : Rolf Sandvold

Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 18,9 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780778742708

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Book Description

Discover the fascinating world of maps.



Reading Maps

Author : Marta Segal Block

Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library

Page : 40 pages

File Size : 13,80 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781432907921

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What can you find in a map key? How are maps made? Why do maps use symbols? This title teaches readers how maps are made and how they are read. Readers will learn how the round globe can be fit onto a flat map, why maps use symbols, and what lines of latitude and longitude mean.



Me on the Map

Author : Joan Sweeney

Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers

Page : 18 pages

File Size : 37,33 MB

Release : 2018-09-18

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 152477202X

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Maps can show you where you are anywhere in the world! A beloved bestseller that helps children discover their place on the planet, now refreshed with new art from Qin Leng. Where are you? Where is your room? Where is your home? Where is your town? This playful introduction to maps shows children how easy it is to find where they live and how they fit in to the larger world. Filled with fun and adorable new illustrations by Qin Leng, this repackage of Me on the Map will show readers how easy it is to find the places they know and love with help from a map.



Throwaway Girls

Author : Andrea Contos

Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd

Page : 323 pages

File Size : 44,98 MB

Release : 2020-09-01

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 152530612X

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A timely edge-of-your-seat thriller from a debut writer to watch. Caroline is only three months from her great escape — leaving behind her rigid prep school and the parents who think they can convert her to being straight — when her best friend, Madison, goes missing. There’s no question that Caroline will get involved in the investigation. After all, she has her own reasons for not trusting the police, and she owes Madison big time. But Caroline uncovers a wider mystery as she follows the clues, with other missing girls and no one on the case. Why isn’t anyone looking for these girls? And what’s the connection between them and Madison? Could it be . . . Caroline herself?



The World of Maps

Author : Judith A. Tyner

Publisher : Guilford Publications

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 42,79 MB

Release : 2014-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1462516483

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"Maps have power--they can instruct, make life easier, mislead, or even lie. This engaging text provides the tools to read, analyze, and use any kind of map and assess its strengths and weaknesses. Requiring no advanced math skills, the book presents basic concepts of symbolization, scale, coordinate systems, and projections. It gives students a deeper understanding of the types of maps they encounter every day, from turn-by-turn driving directions to the TV weather report. Readers also learn how to use multiple maps and imagery to analyze an area or region. The book includes 168 figures, among them 22 color plates; most of the figures can be downloaded as PowerPoint slides from the companion website. Appendices contain a glossary, recommended resources, a table of commonly used projections, and more"--



Ready-to-go Super Book of Outline Maps

Author : Scholastic, Inc. Staff

Publisher : Scholastic Inc.

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 24,16 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Education

ISBN : 9780439117616

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Book Description

101 Reproducible outline maps of the continents, countries of the world, the 50 states, and more.



Time in Maps

Author : Kären Wigen

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 43,4 MB

Release : 2020-11-20

Category : History

ISBN : 022671862X

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Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.