Follow That Map!: A First Book of Mapping Skills

by Scot Ritchie, Scot Ritchie (Illustrator)

Overview

Maps are about far more than getting from a to b. Maps can help children understand and explore both their everyday environment and faraway places. With an appealing search-and-find technique, Follow That Map! is an interactive picture book that explains and demonstrates key mapping concepts. Kids will enjoy following Sally and her friends as they search for Max and Ollie, a mischievous dog and cat on the lam from the backyard. Sally and friends take an imaginative trip through the neighborhood, city and country, around the world and beyond.

Kids can join in the search for Max and Ollie, who are hiding somewhere in every map. An activity at the end of the book shows children how to make a map of their bedroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781554532742
Publisher:	Kids Can Press
Publication date:	02/28/2009
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	34,063
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Scot Ritchie is an award winning illustrator who lives in Vancouver British Columbia. He has illustrated over 40 children's books, (some of which he also wrote) including Let's Go! The Story of Getting from There to Here, Up, Up and Away and the Basics for Beginners series, Hockey, Baseball and Soccer.

Scot Ritchie is an award winning illustrator who lives in Vancouver British Columbia. He has illustrated over 40 children's books, (some of which he also wrote) including Let's Go! The Story of Getting from There to Here, Up, Up and Away and the Basics for Beginners series, Hockey, Baseball and Soccer.

Editorial Reviews

... funny (the cartoon characters look after that) and useful book about maps and mapping for beginners.—The Globe and Mail

With an appealing search-and-find technique, an interactive picture book explains and demonstrates key mapping concepts.—Books for Growing Minds

The bright, easy-to-follow illustrations do an excellent job of highlighting all the major concepts ...—Quill & Quire

From the Publisher

With an appealing search-and-find technique, an interactive picture book explains and demonstrates key mapping concepts.

Books for Growing Minds

The bright, easy-to-follow illustrations do an excellent job of highlighting all the major concepts ...

Quill & Quire

... funny (the cartoon characters look after that) and useful book about maps and mapping for beginners.

The Globe and Mail

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)

Kirkus Reviews