Camilla, Cartographer
Title | Camilla, Cartographer PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Dillemuth |
Publisher | American Psychological Association |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2021-01-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1433835266 |
2019 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Nominee A Bank Street College Best Book of the Year Camilla loves map and has always wondered what it would be like to explore and discover a new path for the first time. When a snowstorm covers the path to the creek, Camilla's historic maps inspires her to make her own path—and her own map! Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers celebrating discovery and adventurous problem-solving. Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers celebrating discovery and adventurous problem-solving.
Mapping My Day
Title | Mapping My Day PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Dillemuth |
Publisher | American Psychological Association |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2021-03-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1433835525 |
Follow Flora and her zany family as she takes us through her day with a series of vibrant and interactive maps. In our current GPS-ruled world, map-reading is something of a dying art. But learning to read, understand, and draw maps is a fun and active way for children to develop spatial thinking skills— how we think about and understand the world around us and use concepts of space for problem solving. Early exposure to maps concepts can help foster this type of cognitive development in children and boost their math and science learning as they progress through school. Each hand-drawn, kid-friendly map highlights key map concepts in the context of a story or puzzle. Figure out which route to school is the fastest, how to find Flora’s buried treasure, and even how to complete a dog agility course! Includes a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Professionals with more information about maps and spatial concepts, as well as questions, games, and activities designed to encourage children to map their own days!
Lucy in the City
Title | Lucy in the City PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Dillemuth |
Publisher | American Psychological Association |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2015-08-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1433819295 |
A young raccoon who gets separated from her family one night and has to find her way home. Faced with the challenge of being on her own, Lucy tunes in to her surroundings for the first time and discovers that she can re-trace her steps using smells, sights, and sounds. At its heart, the story focuses on developing spatial thinking, understanding the world around us, and using concepts of space for problem-solving. Includes a “Note to Parents and Caregivers.”
Apocalyptic Cartography
Title | Apocalyptic Cartography PDF eBook |
Author | Chet Van Duzer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2015-11-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004307273 |
In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief article about this book on the website of National Geographic can be found here.
Camilla and the Big Change
Title | Camilla and the Big Change PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Dillemuth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781433838125 |
"When beavers make a dam that changes the path of the river, Camilla has to change her maps and learns that change can be a good thing"--
Ambient Literature
Title | Ambient Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Abba |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2020-11-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030414566 |
This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences. Building on the work done in the Ambient Literature Project (2016–2018), this books argues that these encounters constitute new literary forms, in which the authored text lies at the heart of an embodied and mediated experience. The visual, sonic, social and historic resources of place become the elements of a live and emergent mise-en-scène. Specific techniques of narration, including hallucination, memory, history, place based writing, and drama, as well as reworking of traditional storytelling forms combine with the work of app and user experience design, interaction, software authoring, and GIS (geographical information systems) to produce ambient experiences where the user reads a textual and sonic literary space. These experiences are temporary, ambiguous, and unpredictable in their meaning but unlike the theatre, the gallery, or the cinema they take place in the everyday shared world. The book explores the potentiality of a new literary form produced by the exchange between location-aware cultural objects, writers and readers. This book, and the work it explores, lays the ground for a new poetics of situated writing and reading practices.
A Friendship Yarn
Title | A Friendship Yarn PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Moser |
Publisher | Albert Whitman & Company |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 2019-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 080750761X |
When porcupine and badger start knitting, their friendship gets all tangled up. Porcupine and Badger have always been the best of friends, so when Porcupine finds some yarn in the woods, she makes a present for Badger. And when Badger finds yarn, she makes a present for Porcupine. The only problem? It's the same yarn—and to finish the gift, they each must unravel the other's creation. An act of kindness turns into a fierce standoff as the friendship frays—can Porcupine and Badger set aside their differences and knit themselves back together?