The Boy Who Loved Maps by Kari Allen - ISBN: 9781984852304
Hardcover
Can a mapmaker find the perfect place? Maybe it’s home.

The Boy Who Loved Maps

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  • Hardcover

    44 pages

  • Release Date

    26 July 2022

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Summary

This enchanting picture book about a map-making boy who is stumped when a girl asks him for a map of the “perfect place” helps readers appreciate the charms of their own neighborhood–and even shows them how to make a map of it!

The Mapmaker loves maps. He loves to collect them, to study them, and most of all, he loves to make them. But when a girl asks for a map of a perfect place, the Mapmaker is perplexed. She wants a map to a toes-in-the-sand-warm, X-marks-the-spot-place filled wit…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781984852304
ISBN-10:1984852302
Author:Kari Allen, G. Brian Karas
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:44
Release Date:26 July 2022
Weight:454g
Dimensions:20mm x 311mm x 214mm
About The Author

Kari Allen

Kari Allen is an educator and children’s book writer. She has worked with the National Writing Project in New Hampshire to coordinate writing camps and facilitate creative workshops, and is currently a second-grade teacher. THE BOY WHO LOVED MAPS is her debut.

G. Brian Karas is the prolific, versatile, and award-winning illustrator of many books for children, including A Poem in Your Pocket, How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?, and The Apple Orchard Riddle. He also illustrated A Hat for Mrs. Goldman by Michelle Edwards; Neville by Norton Juster; Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming, which received four starred reviews; Are You Going to Be Good? by Cari Best, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; and Home on the Bayou, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.

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