The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World
by Dean Robbins (Author) Matt Tavares (Illustrator)
How did the first people explore the land they lived on? How did civilizations expand their boundaries and chart courses into new lands? Learn about the history of cartography across cultures in this ode to mapmaking through the ages.
Join history's first mapmakers as they explore the wonders of the world! In these pages, you’ll find the tools ancient people used to depict their surroundings, methods different cartographers developed to survey new lands, and how we’ve arrived at modern mapmaking today. Above all else, the thread that runs throughout thousands of years of civilization is the spirit of exploration that helps us measure the shape of things around us, the world we all share.
Join history's first mapmakers as they explore the wonders of the world! In these pages, you’ll find the tools ancient people used to depict their surroundings, methods different cartographers developed to survey new lands, and how we’ve arrived at modern mapmaking today. Above all else, the thread that runs throughout thousands of years of civilization is the spirit of exploration that helps us measure the shape of things around us, the world we all share.
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Dean Robbins
Dean Robbins is the author of ¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! The Dance That Crossed Color Lines, illustrated by Eric Velasquez. He is also the author of Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing, illustrated by Lucy Knisley; Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote, illustrated by Nancy Zhang; and Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko, as well as a jazz trumpet player, a jazz critic, and a jazz festival organizer. Dean Robbins lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Susanna Chapman is an illustrator, muralist, and designer. Her books include Ada and the Galaxies by Alan Lightman and Olga Pastuchiv and Elizabeth Warren's Big, Bold Plans by Laurie Ann Thompson. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780593479254
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Publication date
August 20, 2024
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF051180 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Earth Sciences - Geography
JNF025080 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Exploration & Discovery
JNF025080 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Exploration & Discovery
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