All About Maps Amazing Activity Book: Fun Facts, Mazes, Games, and Brain Teasers (Happy Fox Books) For Kids Ages 8-12 - Geography Puzzles, Stickers, How to Read Maps, Make Your Own Compass, and More - Softcover

Paola Misesti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1641243317 ISBN 13: 9781641243315

Publisher: Happy Fox Books, 2023

Synopsis

A hands-on activity book for kids to learn just how awesome maps really are!

• Colorful and fun activity book for kids ages 8-12 that teaches them how to read maps and draw their world
• Fun facts about different types of maps, their purposes, and the world of cartography
• Jam-packed with games, mazes, brain teasers, and activities that become more challenging as the book goes on
• Colorful stickers, cut-out materials, and simple yet detailed instructions for making map grids, floor plans, and more
• Build your own compass, just like geographers and cartographers use, that really works

An exciting activity book to get kids ages 8-12 excited about maps and geography!

With the help and guidance of two young apprentices, Gea and Tom, young readers will learn all about the navigational tools geographers and cartographers use, the different types of geographical maps, how they're made, how to read and interpret them, explore spatial coordinates, and so much more!

Through tons of interactive games and activities centered around geography that become more challenging as the book goes on, kids will have a blast discovering the amazing world of maps, so they'll be able to read them, use them, and even make them like a pro!

Jam-packed with tons of incredibly interesting facts, historical information, map-reading secrets, and so much more, this must-have book will keep kids entertained for hours! Also included are colorful, high-quality stickers, cut-out materials, and easy-to-follow instructions for making a compass that will actually work. By the end of the book, they'll be able to understand cartography (the science of making maps) and draw their own plans and maps!

Illustrator Agnese Baruzzi is also the illustrator of the popular Find Me! Series (Fox Chapel) and has been working as a published children's book author and illustrator since 2001. Editor Paola Misesti trains educators, teachers, and parents and leads workshops and educational programs in kindergarten and elementary schools.

All About Maps Amazing Activity Book is a fun and educational way for kids 8-12 to learn about cartography through play!

About this title

About the Author

Agnese Baruzzi is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. A published credit of Agnese Baruzzi is The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood: A Novelty Book. She also is the illustrator for Innovative Kids titles, including Just Like My Mommy.

From the Back Cover

Discovering the world through geography!

All About Maps Amazing Activity Book teaches children how to read maps and draw their world using CARTOGRAPHY! With the help and guidance of two young apprentices, Gea and Tom, kids will discover how to make and use navigational tools like compasses and how to explore spatial coordinates. By the end of the book, they'll be able to understand and draw their own plans and maps!

• Engaging educational games and activities that become more challenging as the book progresses
• Colorful stickers and cut-out materials with detailed instructions for making navigational tools that really work
• Interesting historical facts about cartography (the science of making maps)

Edition details

• Publisher: Happy Fox Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1641243317
• ISBN 13: 9781641243315
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Agnese Baruzzi
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72