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For younger readers

Mapping the World. 8 vols. Grolier, 2002. A reference for readers in grades 7 to 10.

Bramwell, Martyn. How Maps Are Made. Lerner, 1998. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Oleksy, Walter. Maps in History. Watts , 2002. For readers in grades 5 to 7.

Ross, Val. The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories. Tundra, 2003. For readers in grade 6 and up.

Stille, Darlene R. Mars. Child's World, 2003. For readers in grades 3 and 4.

Young, Karen Romano. Small Worlds: Maps and Mapmaking. Scholastic, 2002. For readers in grade 7 and up.

Map & Mapmaking

Brown, Lloyd A. The Story of Maps. Dover, 1990. A classic history of cartography.

Makower, Joel. The Map Catalog: Every Kind of Map on Earth and Even Some Above It. Random House, 1990, 1999. Essays on every conceivable map type and sources for finding particular maps.

Nelson, Derek. Off the Map: The Curious Histories of Place-names. Kodansha, 1997. An amusing look at maps and the practices of cartographers.

Stefoff, Rebecca. The Young Oxford Companion to Maps and Mapmaking. Oxford University Press, 1995. Guide to all aspects of cartography; for younger readers.

Thrower, Norman J.W. Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 1999. Provides a concise introduction to the history of cartography and its interpretation by various cultures.

Whitfield, Peter. The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps. Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994, 1997. Illustrated history of world cartography.

Wilford, John Noble. The Mapmakers. Rev. ed. Random House, 2001. Adventures, personalities, and technology in the history of cartography.

Wood, Denis. The Power of Maps. Guilford, 1992, 1997. Study of mapmakers and their agendas in the mapmaking process.

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