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Mapping Boston A Booklist for Children
Booklists for Kids

Grades K-2

Barner, Bob. WHICH WAY TO THE REVOLUTION?: A Book about Maps.
New York: Holiday House, 1998.

Berger, Melvin.  THE WHOLE WORLD IN YOUR HANDS: Looking at Maps.
Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1999.

Boyle, Bill.  MY FIRST ATLAS.
New York: DK Publishing, 1994

Jenkins, Steve.  LOOKING DOWN.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Sweeney Joan.  ME ON THE MAP.
New York: Crown, 1996.

Grades 3-5

Baicker-McKee, Carol.  MAPPED OUT!: The Search for Snookums.
Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1997.

Chambers, Catherine.  ALL ABOUT MAPS.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1998.

Fritz, Jean.  AROUND THE WORLD IN A HUNDRED YEARS; From Henry the Navigator to Magellan.
New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1994.

Ganeri, Anita.  THE STORY OF MAPS AND NAVIGATION.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. (Also grades 6-8)

Haslam, Andrew. MAPS.
Chicago: World Book/Two-Can, 1996.

Hatchett, Clint.  THE GLOW-IN-THE-DARK NIGHT SKY BOOK.
New York: Random House, 1988.

Julio, Susan.  GREAT MAP MYSTERIES: 18 Stories and Maps to Build Geography and Map Skills.
New York: Scholastic, 1997.

Knowlton, Jack.  MAPS & GLOBES.
New York: Crowell, 1985.

Lauber, Patricia.  HOW WE LEARNED THE EARTH IS ROUND.
New York: Crowell, 1990.

Stienecker. David.  MAPS.
New York: Benchmark Books, 1998.

VanCleave, Janice Pratt.  GEOGRAPHY FOR EVERY KID: Easy Activities That Make Learning Geography Fun.
New York: Wiley, 1993.

Weiss, Harvey. MAPS: Getting From Here to There.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Grades 6-8

Dorling, Kindersley.  THE DK STUDENT ATLAS.
New York: DK Publishing, 1998.

Howarth, Sarah.  THE CHILDREN'S ATLAS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1996.

Kenda, Margaret.  GEOGRAPHY WIZARDRY FOR KIDS.
Hauppauge, NY: Barron's, 1997.

Mattson, Mark T.  THE SCHOLASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES.
New York: Scholastic, 1993.

Ryan, Peter.  EXPLORERS & MAPMAKERS.
New York: Lodestar Books, 1990.

Smith, A.G. WHERE AM I?: The Story of Maps and Navigation.
Toronto: Stoddard, 1997.

Smothey, Marion.  MAPS AND SCALE DRAWINGS.
New York: Marshall-Cavendish, 1995.

Stefoff, Rebecca.  ACCIDENTAL EXPLORERS: Surprises and Sidetrips in the History of Exploration.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Compiled by Bronwyn Booker, Orient Heights Branch, Roberta Lewis, East Boston Branch, Elizabeth Schulz, Brighton Branch, Boston Public Library, 1999.  In honor of Mapping Boston, an exhibit featuring the Norman B. Levanthal Map Collection