Maps

Maps


The following places often provide free maps, although you
will probably have to go in person or send a self-addressed
stamped envelope in order to receive one:

* State tourist agencies and local chambers of commerce
publish walking tour maps or guidebooks to area
attractions.

* Local government offices, especially those dealing with
public transportation, often provide free road maps.

* Car rental companies. The Federal Government has hundreds
of maps available. For a comprehensive listing, contact
the Government Printing Office (GPO) bookstore in your
area or the Superintendent of Documents, Government
Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. The GPO handles the
printing and sales of items produced by government
agencies. Some examples of what you might find there, or
directly through the developing agency, include:

* Schematic maps with historical data and park activities of
the areas under the care of the U.S. National Park
Service. Contact the particular site, or write to the
Department of the Interior, U.S. National Park Service,
P.O. Box 7427, Washington, DC 20013-7127.

* Maps from the U.S. Geological Survey, the civilian
mapmaking agency of the United States Government, covering
a range of areas including National Wildlife Refuges to
LANDSAT pictures of the Earth. For a catalog, write to the
Earth Science Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey,
507 National Center, Reston, VA 22092.

* A map of the United States showing the U.S. Wildlife
Refuges. Write to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Division of Refuge, 18th and C Streets NW, Washington, DC
20204.

* Maps of water recreation areas, from the Army Corps of
Engineers. Write to Department of the Army, Corps of
Engineers, 2803 52nd Avenue, Hyattsville, MD 20781-1102.

* A wide selection of material is available from the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 400
Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20546. Of particular
interest are NASA Facts--Planet Earth Through the Eyes of
LANDSAT 4 and Earth System Science. For a full list, ask
for a copy of NASA Educational Publications.

Another source is The Map Catalog (Joel Makower, editor,
and Laura Bergheim, associate editor), published in 1986
by Vintage Books of Random House. It is probably at your
public library.


Magazines


Look for these magazines in your school or library:

* Discover produced by Family Media, Incorporated;

* World, published by the National Geographic Society; and

* Ranger Rick and Your Big Backyard, published by the
National Wildlife Federation.


Pen Pal
Organizations


League of Friendship
P.O. Box 509
Mt. Vernon, OH 43050
(6 14)392-3 166


Books


Easy Reading and Picture Books:


Anderson, Lonzo. Day the Hurricane Happened. Story of what a
family does when a hurricane rips through their island.

Bach, Alice. Most Delicious Camping Trip Ever. Exploits of twin
bears on a camping trip.

Balet, Jan. Fence, A Mexican Tale. Illustrations help tell the
story of two Mexican families.

Beskow, Elsa. Children of the Forest. A family of Tomten (small
forest people) work and play through the four seasons in their
Nordic home.

Brenner, Barbara. Barto Takes the Subway. Barto lives in New
York City. He and his sister take a trip on the subway.

Brenner, Barbara. Wagon Wheels. Three young black brothers
follow a map to their father's homestead on the Western plains.

Brinckloe, Julie. Gordon Goes Camping. When Gordon decides to
go camping, his friend Marvin tells him of all the things he
will need for the trip.

Buck, Pearl S. Chinese Children Next Door. A mother who had
spent her childhood in China tells her children about her
neighbors there.

Burningham, John. Seasons. A series of pictures that define the
four seasons.

Burton, Virginia Lee. Little House. A country house is unhappy
when the city with all its houses and traffic grows up around
it.

Chonz, Selina. Bell for Ursli. A boy who lives in a tiny
village in the mountains of Switzerland has an adventure when
the spring festival comes.

Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius. One woman's personal odyssey
through life to fulfill her grandfather's wish that she make
the world more beautiful.

Devlin, Wende and Harry. Cranberry Thanksgiving; Cranberry
Christmas; Cranberry Mystery. A series of mystery-adventure
tales set on the cranberry bog shore of Cape Cod.

Dobrin, Arnold. Josephine's Imagination; A Tale of Haiti. Story
of a young girl and her adventures in the Haitian market.

Eiseman, Alberta. Candido. Paco, a Peruvian boy, loves his pet
llama but knows that he must find a way to train the animal to
work as other llamas do.

Ets, Marie Hall. Gilberto and the Wind. A very little boy from
Mexico finds that the wind is his playmate.

Feelings, Muriel L. Jambo Means Hello. A Swahili alphabet book.

Frasconi, Antonio. See and Say, Guarda e Parla, Mira y Habla,
Regard et Parle. A picture book that gives words from four
languages and prints each in a special color. Has a page of
everyday expressions as well.

Garelic, May. Down to the Beach. Boats, birds, shells, sand,
waves, tides and all the fun and wonder of the beach are
pictured in simple, rhythmic prose and beautiful watercolors.

Goble, Paul. The Gift of the Sacred Dog and The Girl Who Loved
Wild Horses. These stories, accompanied by beautiful pictures,
are based on legends of the Native Americans.

Green, Norma B. Hole in the Dike. Retells the familiar story of
the young Dutch boy whose resourcefulness, courage and finger
save his country from being destroyed by the sea.

Hader, Berta. Reindeer Trail. The generous Laplanders bring
their herds of reindeer all the way from Lapland to Alaska to
help hungry Eskimos.

Hoban, Tana. Over, Under & Through, and Other Spatial Concepts.
A picture book on spatial concepts.

Holling, Holling C. Paddle-to-the-Sea. Describes the journey of
a toy canoe from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.

Kessler, Ethel. Big Red Bus. An illustrated bus ride for the
very beginning reader.

Krasilovsky, Phyllis. The First Tulips in Holland. Beautiful
drawings about spring in Holland.

Kraus, Robert. Gondolier of Venice. The city of Venice is
sinking into the sea, but Gregory, a proud gondolier, gets a
clever and unusual idea to help the old city.

Lamont, Bette. Island Time. A parent and child board the ferry
that takes them to their very special island on Puget Sound.

Lisowski, Gabriel. How Tevye Became a Milkman. Short tale, with
illustrations of the Ukrainian countryside, based on the
character also depicted in Fiddler on the Roof.

McCloskey, Robert. Blueberries for Sal. Make Way for Ducklings.
One Morning in Maine. Favorites from an award winning
children's book author. Each describes a special journey and
the difficulties in getting from one place to another.

Mizumura, Kazue. If I Built a Village. An idealistic picture of
what a village, town and city can be ends with a small boy
building with blocks.

Morrow, Suzanne Stark. Inatuk's Friend. Story of an Eskimo
child who must move from one place to another.

Musgrove, Margaret. Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions. Read
and observe 26 African tribes from A to Z.

Peterson, Hans. Big Snowstorm. Illustrations and text picture
events on a Swedish farm during a raging, January blizzard.

Rockwell, Anne. Thruway. As a small boy rides along a thruway
with his mother, he tells of all the things he sees.

Shortall, Leonard. Peter in Grand Central Station. Peter takes
his first trip alone, but when he gets to New York, his uncle
is not there to meet him.

Skorpen, Liesel Moak. We Were Tired of Living in a House. Four
small children pack their bags and leave home to find a new and
better house.

Spier, Peter. People. Explores the enormous diversity of the
world's population. Looks at various cultures, homes, foods,
games, clothing, faces, and religions.

Van Woerkom, Dorothy. Abu Ali: Three Tales of the Middle East.
Abu Ali is fooled by his friends, tricks them in turn and even
fools himself in three humorous stories of trickery based on
folklore of the Middle East.


Books to Read Aloud or for Better Readers:


Brink, Carol Ryrie. Caddie Woodlawn. These stories convey the
flavor of pioneer life through the eyes of a little girl who
lived in Wisconsin a century ago.

Bulla, Clyde Robert. A Lion to Guard Us. This is a story of the
founding fathers of the Jamestown colony and the families they
left behind in England.

DeJong, Meindert. Wheel on the School. Children of Shora, a
Netherlands village, are determined to bring storks back to
their town.

Dodge, Mary Mapes. Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. Poor
Dutch children long to compete in a skating contest.

DuBois, William Pene. The Twenty-one Balloons. In the fall of
1883, Professor William Waterbury Sherman sets forth from San
Francisco on a balloon expedition around the world.

Hansen, Judith. Seashells in My Pocket: A Child's Guide to
Exploring the Atlantic Coast from Maine to North Carolina. A
look at seashells on Atlantic Coast beaches.

Henry, Marguerite. Misty of Chincoteague. A story of the wild
ponies that live on an island off the eastern shore of
Virginia, and of one freedom-loving pony.

Kelly, Eric. The Trumpeter of Krakow. Mystery story centering
around an attack on the ancient city of Krakow in medieval
Poland.

Milne. A.A. The House at Pooh Corner; Winnie-the-Pooh.
Christopher Robin and his friends have adventures and tell
stories.

Mowat, Farley. Owls in the family. This is a story of the
author's boyhood on the Saskatchewan prairie, raising dogs,
gophers, rats, snakes, pigeons, and owls.

McNulty, Faith. Hurricane. This is a nature story that takes
place when a family struggles against a hurricane.

Spyri, Johanna. Heidi. Story of a young girl who goes to live
with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. She is then taken by
her aunt to live in the city and struggles to return to her
grandfather.

Steig, William. Abel's Island. A mouse lives for a year in the
wilderness until his wit and courage take him back home.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The Little House series. Documents the
life of the author and her husband a century ago.

Wyss, Johann. Swiss Family Robinson. The adventures of a Swiss
family shipwrecked on a desert island.


Atlases and other reference guides for young people:


Big Blue Marble Atlas. Paula Brown and Robert Garrison. Ideals
Publishing group. Milwaukee. 1988.

Discovering Maps: A Young Person's Atlas. Hammond
Incorporated. Maplewood, N.J. 1989.

Doubleday Children's Atlas. Jane Oliver, editor. Doubleday. New
York. 1987.

Facts on File Children's Atlas. David and Jill Wright. Facts on
File Publications. New York. 1987.

Life Through the Ages. Giovanni Caselli. Grossett and Dunlop.
New York. 1987.

Picture Atlas of Our World. National Geographic Society.
Washington, D.C. 1979.

Picture Encyclopedia of the World for Children. Bryon Williams
and Lynn Williamson. Simon and Schuster. New York. 1984.

Rand McNally Children's Atlas of the World. Bruce Ogilvie. Rand
McNally and Co., Inc. Chicago. 1985.

Rand McNally Student's World Atlas. Rand McNally and Co.
Chicago. 1988.

Usborne Book of World Geography. Jenny Tyler, Lisa Watts, Carol
Bowyer, Roma Trundle and Annabel Warrender. Usborne Publishing,
Ltd. London. 1984.