Maps Galore: Discover the World, One Page at a Time
Get ready for a wild ride through history with The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World!
This fun and educational book turns mapmaking into an exciting adventure.
Kids will love exploring the world, one map at a time!
Maps are more than just dots and lines.
They’re tickets to adventure, time machines to the past, and keys to unlocking the world’s secrets.
This children’s picture book turns the ordinary into extraordinary, turning mapmaking into a thrilling quest.
Why Your Kid Will Love This Book
The Shape of Things brings history to life with amazing illustrations and easy-to-understand text.
Your kid will become a real-life mapmaker, dreaming up their own adventures and exploring faraway places.
Plus, it’s like having a time machine to meet ancient mapmakers and see how maps have changed over centuries!
Join the Adventure!
Ready to set sail on a mapmaking adventure?
Grab your compass and head to Amazon to snag a copy of The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World.
Your kid will thank you for the coolest book ever!
Let’s explore the world together, one map at a time.
The Shape of Things
How Mapmakers Picture Our World
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Random House Children’s Books
isbn 9780593479254
Pub Date 8/20/24
Synopsis
How did the first people explore the land they lived on?
How did civilizations expand their boundaries and chart courses into new lands?
Learn about the history of cartography across cultures in this ode to mapmaking through the ages.
Join history’s first mapmakers as they explore the wonders of the world!
In these pages, you’ll find the tools ancient people used to depict their surroundings, methods different cartographers developed to survey new lands, and how we’ve arrived at modern mapmaking today.
Above all else, the thread that runs throughout thousands of years of civilization is the spirit of exploration that helps us measure the shape of things around us, the world we all share.
Author
Dean Robbins
Illustrator
Matt Tavares
Suggested Ages
4 to 8 years old
Preschool to 3rd Grade
Genre
History
Exploration
Maps
Children’s Book
The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World
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