3.+Literature+List

=**Amy More**= =Here is a compiled list of various books that I found that relate to our topic:=


 * The Everything Kids Geography Book || Jane P. Gardner and J. Elizabeth Mills ||
 * P is for Passport || Devin Scillian ||
 * Me on the Map || Joan Sweeney ||
 * As the Crow Flies: A first book of maps || Gail Hartman ||
 * Maps and Globes (reading rainbow) || Jack Knowlton ||
 * Where do I live? || Neil Chesanow ||
 * Map Skills Made Fun: Neighborhoods and Communities: 60 fun and engaging… || Catherine Tamblyn ||
 * On Earth || G. Brian Karas ||
 * The Four Oceans || Wil Mara ||
 * The Seven Continents || Wil Mara ||
 * S Is for Sunshine: A florida alphabet edition || Carol Crane ||
 * Mapping Penny’s World || Loreen Leedy ||
 * Geography from A to Z: A picture glossary || Jack Knowlton ||
 * My Neighborhood: Places and Faces || Lisa Bullard ||
 * The Life and Times of the Apple || Charles Micucci ||
 * My America: A poetry atlas of the United States || Lee Bennett hopkins ||
 * Is Anybody Up? || Ellen Kandoian ||
 * How we use maps and globes ||  ||
 * National Geographic United states atlas for young explorers ||  ||
 * *The red ones are the ones that I have used for my lit list for the assignment ||  ||

=**Amy More**= =**Literature List**=

//As the Crow Flies: A first book of maps// Gail Hartman This book is a very basic introduction of maps. It has beautiful illustrations of various different maps with little text on each page. It does not give map terms or definitions, but for a young aged child, terms and definitions can become cumbersome and confusing. Overall, the book shows the world through a different point of view than young children are used to; it is from an aerial view because the maps in the view of a flying animal’s eyes. The illustrations are beautifully done and the book can introduce maps on a surface level; it can get the students’ feet wet and from there more complex concepts and map skills can be introduced and taught.

//Geography from A to Z: A picture glossary// Jack Knowlton The title of this book describes the contents of this book perfectly; it is exactly a picture glossary. Beginning on page one, an “A” word is stated and defined with a collection of pictures above the definition. The book moves on through the alphabet defining various geography terms or introducing important geographical locations. At the back of the book, the book includes an index of terms that can be found throughout the book. This book could be used in a couple different ways: it could be used as a reference tool in a young classroom when they learn new terms or the teacher could read a term or an alphabet letter every day (or on whatever schedule he/she wants to) to introduce geography terms.

//Mapping Penny’s World// Loreen Leedy Lisa, a young school aged girl, is learning about maps in school and gets very excited about the new information. She decides to apply the knowledge she learned at school to create maps of her room, her yard, and her neighborhood. But these maps were not created for just anybody; they were maps for her pet dog, Penny and were drawn in perspective for the dog. As she creates the maps throughout the book, important map terms are introduced and defined such as key, scale, symbol, and pedometer. As children read through this book individually or especially as a class, they can learn basic map skills, follow a fun interesting story, and eventually learn how to create their own map!

//The Four Oceans// Wil Mara //The Four Oceans// is a non-fiction book that introduces basic facts about geography. Topics such as oceans, climate, and terrain are described in a variety of ways. Descriptions, definitions, and pictures are collaboratively used together to help the reader understand basic geography. The focus of the book as a whole however, is on the four oceans: Pacific, Arctic, Atlantic, and Indian. Plants that live in the four oceans, animals that reside in each ocean, and other distinctive features about each ocean are also described so readers walk away understanding the four oceans.


 * Ashley Wrenne's Literature List **


 * **Looking at Maps and Globes by: Carmen Bredeson **

Looking at Maps and Globes is a book that discusses all aspects concerning maps and globes. This book explains that the first maps were drawn in dirt and most maps today are made on paper. It also explains that maps use symbols to represent different items. The book then goes on to tell us that maps have a legend to tell the viewer what the different symbols mean. To find your way around on a map you must know your directions North, South, East, and West. Also on a map you will find a map scale and that will tell you how many miles equals one inch on that map. A globe is designed so that you can see what the earth really looks like.

This book begins with a getting started sections which highlights all the important features of a map that you need to know such as a compass rose, legend, and scale bar. Sally and her friends are playing one day when her friend Pedro realizes Sally’s dog and car are missing. These children want to find out where they went. One of the friends tells everyone that they are going to need a map to find the dog and cat. Yulee thinks that the cat and dog might have gone to their favorite place in town so the find the park on the map and head that way. The five friends keep thinking of different places where Sally’s dog and cat might have gone and they find the places on the map and head there to look for them. On each page of this book it asks the reader a question that requires the reader to use the map and legend on the next page to answer the question. The questions are being presented as the five friends are traveling the world in search for Sally’s dog and cat.
 * **Follow That Map A First Book of Mapping Skills by: Scot Ritchie **


 * **Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney **

This is a book about a young girl who is telling us about places and then those locations on maps. She begins with her room and map of her room and then goes on to her house and a map of her house with her room on the map. Once she tells us about the map of her house she tells us her street, a map of her street and her house on the map of her street. This young girl goes on to tell us about her town, state, country, and the world. The entire time she is relating places back to a map. Through these maps you are able to see how everything she talks about is related. At the end of the book you are able to see that everyone has his or her own place on the map.


 * **Maps by Andrew Haslam **

This book is a hands-on approach to geography. The book covers a great deal of topics related to maps such as being a mapmaker, bird’s-eye view, scales and grids, measuring height, signs and symbols, mapping the sea and sky, human maps, three-dimensional maps, the globe, and so on. Not only does each page of this book describe something such as scales and grids but it also provides you with hands on activities related to the topic that you can do with students.


 * **The Columbus Story by: Alice Dalgliesh **

This is a biography on Christopher Columbus that tells about important parts of his life. Christopher Columbus had a love for the sea even though his parents were weavers. Christopher always wanted to be a sailor and go to sea. As Christopher grew he read books on countries across the ocean. Christopher Columbus studied maps and learned how to make them. He learned all he could about the seas and traveled many times. Christopher had to find someone to fund his voyage and this took quite some time. Christopher finally got funded by the King and Queen of Spain and went to sea with the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria in 1942. They sailed on and on and Christopher found out the world was bigger than he thought. They finally saw land after quite some time. The land they landed on they named San Salvador. The land on San Salvador was beautiful with palm trees. They continued to go from island to island. One day finally making the voyage back to Spain.


 * **How We Use Maps and Globes by: Muriel Stanek **

A globe is a round ball that is made to look just like the earth only smaller. A globe shows us land and water; the earth has three times more water than land. A globe also shows us that as far north as you can go is the North Pole and as far south as you can go is the South Pole. There is a line that goes all the way around the world that is called the equator that divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres. Maps are a drawing of the earth or any part of the earth that can show many different things. A map is a flat drawing and not as true of a picture of the whole earth. Directions are important because they tell you the way something or someone is moving. It is important to know North, South, East, and West when working with maps. Also discussed in this book is longitude and latitude, land and water, globes telling us about seasons, and how maps show distance.

=Taylor Weber- Literature list = = =

Author(s): Joan D’amico and Karen Eich Drummond This book shares with children the differences in food in different states and regions. Not only does the book tell you about the foods but on your journey through the 50 states you will learn out to make the food. Also there are fun facts about the 50 United States, these come in the form of question and answers. Some recipes include: Banana Berry Pancakes with Real Maple Syrup from Vermont, Key Lime Pie from Florida, Deep Dish Pizza from Illinois.

Author: Tish Rabe Summary: There’s a map in my lap is a Dr. Seuss style book. The children will take a trip with the Cat in the Hat and learn about the different types or maps, the forms they come in, how to read them, and some fun facts about the places on them. This book is for the beginning readers.

Author/publisher: kingfisher publications Summary: this is a nonfiction book that features on 30 maps and provides information for children about their world. The book is organized but continent. The maps and pages that pictures clues to important information and lots of pictures and artwork. The book is gear for all ages 7 or older and comes with a colored poster.

Author: Victoria Parker Summary: The book puts distance in perspective for children. While taking a journey the book compares distances using familiar distances.

=Katelyn Tugwell- Literature List= = = __ Literature List __ 1) __ S Is for Sunshine: A __ __ Florida ____ alphabet edition __ by Carol Crane   I absolutely love this book and think that students would too. It’s a great book to educate students in a fun way about the state that they live in. The book has beautiful illustrations and is full of fun facts and poems about Florida . Some examples from the book include “E " stands for Everglade, a grassy river that runs all the way to the ocean. Florida 's Everglades is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the United States . And "J" stands for Juan Ponce de Leon the Spanish explorer who discovered Florida while searching for gold and the Fountain of Youth.     2) __ My Neighborhood: Places and Faces __ by Lisa Bullard     This is a cute book that students would love because it has a simple and relatable story line to it. Students get to take a trip around the main character’s neighborhood. The main character is a little girl named Libby. Libby shows children how her neighborhood is a lot like theirs with neighbors, mailmen, firemen. 3) __ Me on the Map __ by Joan Sweeney    This is a great book to teach students about maps and bring out the cartographer in them. It’s written in a way to intrigue children about maps and how there are many different types of maps. The book shows children maps from a personal scale to a global scale, for example, from the characters bedroom to her town, to then her state, and eventually the United States .     4) __ Where do I live? __ by Neil Chesanow This is a good book for primary grades to teach students about where exactly it is that they live. The book has beautiful ink drawings with bright watercolor washes. It starts out on a small scale and works its way up to the large scale of where you live. It begins in a child's room, places it in a home, on a street, in a town, and then in a city and state, country, continent, and then the world we live in, Earth.