maps

Explores the process of making and reading maps, from using sticks and clay to plot early routes, to satellites that circle the globe. Includes activities for making your own maps.

Introduces young readers to the countries and continents of the world. Includes pictorial and relief maps, and encourages map-reading skills.

Simple maps show how different animals, including a lizard, a jackrabbit, a roadrunner, mules, and deer, travel through an area of the Southwest.

Explains what maps are, focusing on topographic maps, with discussion of scale, legends, contours, and contour lines; and looks at how topographic maps can be used. Includes a glossary.

A guide to understanding road maps, explaining what maps are, how to use the legend, how to understand scale and direction, and how to use the grid. Includes a look at road maps of the future.

Introduces basic map concepts through a story in which a boy learns his route to school with help from his father.

Introduces young readers to labels and symbols on maps.

Briefly discusses different types of maps and globes and explains such map-related terms as symbol, key, direction, and scale.

A collection of maps provides views of the owner's bedroom, school, playground, and other realms farther away.

The Cat in the Hat teaches Dick and Sally about cartography and the uses of different kinds of maps.