Follow That Map!: A First Book of Mapping Skills

by Scot Ritchie

Overview

Follow That Map! is a mind-expanding adventure for the young and a unique way to introduce mapping concepts at the primary level and get kids started on the road to mastering this essential skill.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781525306822
Publisher:	Kids Can Press
Publication date:	02/01/2009
Series:	Exploring Our Community
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	1,001,599
File size:	23 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Scot Ritchie is an award-winning author-illustrator of over 50 books including Join the No-Plastic Challenge!, Follow That Map! and Look Where We Live!. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Editorial Reviews

Kids like maps. They like to look at them and they really like to create maps of their own. In this introduction to reading and using maps, Sally has lost her dog and cat, and Ritchie uses maps to trace Sally and her friends' trail as they search for Max and Ollie. Starting in the neighborhood and moving out, these good-natured buddies travel far and wide. Each page shows a different type of map (road, weather, topographical, even a treasure map, among others) with both narration and map facts in white space to the left of each map. While most maps have a compass rose and scale box, not all do, and that limits the book's usefulness as a teaching device. Though the kids are looking for their pets, who presumably can't get all that far, the logic of the story falls apart when the author places them on a weather map, a globe or even in outer space. Children will enjoy finding the hidden animals on each page, even when the characters miss them. A fun, if muddled, introduction to maps. (Picture book. 5-7)

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