Maps: Getting from Here to There (Sandpiper paperbacks) [Paperback]

Harvey Weiss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 27, 1995 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Sandpiper paperbacks

This book describes the many different kinds of maps and explains the methods that mapmakers use to convey information, including clear and simple explanations of scale, latitude, longitude, and altitude. It also shows you how to make your own map.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-8-- In an informal, animated style, Weiss introduces the purpose, varieties, history, and mechanics of maps and map making. Every page offers helpful illustrations, which consist of modern and historical reproductions and single-color diagrams, charts, and cartoons. Map-reading essentials of compass direction, scale, latitude and longitude, altitude, and symbols are explained. The special purpose and appearance of topographic maps, marine charts, and different projections are also discussed. In the final chapter, readers are invited to make maps of their neighborhoods, using a simple list of tools and following step-by-step instructions that reinforce the cartographic methodology described throughout the book. This an enthusiastic, accessible, and motivating presentation that fills a gap for middle-grade readers whose informational needs fall between Ray Broekel's Maps and Globes (Childrens, 1983) and Helen Carey's more detailed, well-referenced How to Use Maps and Globes (Watts, 1983; o.p.). --Gerry Larson, Chewning Junior High School, Durham, NC
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Kirkus Reviews

An admirably lucid presentation of what maps are, how they're made, and their many different types and uses. Beginning with a sequence that moves from a map of Weiss's desk to maps of his room, house, town, and state to a map of ``the entire world,'' it includes discussions of scale, symbols, contour lines, latitude and longitude, the most frequently used projections, and several special purpose maps, such as marine charts and aircraft maps. A final chapter gives easily followed directions for mapping an area such as a backyard. The simple drawings are lively, well placed, and perfectly clear; unfortunately, the decision to use just two colors (black and brown) results in a couple of apologies when the important use of several colors (e.g., on an N.Y.C. subway map) can't be shown. Still, an excellent survey that nicely conveys the fascination of its many-faceted subject. (Nonfiction. 8-11) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Sandpiper (March 27, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395720281
• ISBN-13: 978-0395720288
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,692,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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