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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 map
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 map