Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel
10 best books like Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel (Jill K. Berry): Kampung Boy, Red Scarf Girl, The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World, Illegal, Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers, Ramayana: Divine Loophole (Hindu Mythology Books, Books on Hindu Gods and Goddesses, Indian Books for Kids), A Million Shades of Gray, The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea, The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
| Author | LAT (Mohammad Nor Khalid) |
| ISBN | 1596431210 |
Kampung Boy is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishing trips, religious study, and work on his family's rubber...
| Author | Ji-li Jiang |
| ISBN | 0439063000 |
Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.
It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains, popularity, and...
The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
| Author | Roz Hopkins |
| ISBN | 1741046297 |
Okay, so I didn't exactly read *this* book, but I read the 2nd one. And until its on GoodReads, I'll keep this one on my bookshelf.
I wanted this book because I thought it would make for a great coffee table book. I love, love, LOVE to travel, so what better?!
Things I liked:
-it has almost...
This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer, previously Irish Children's Laureate, and the team behind his bestselling Artemis Fowl graphic novels.
Ebo: alone.His...
| Author | Nancy Pearl |
| ISBN | 1570616507 |
Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops...
Artist and veteran Pixar animator Sanjay Patel lends a lush, whimsical illustration style and lighthearted voice to one of Hindu mythology's best-loved and most enduring tales. Teeming with powerful deities, love-struck monsters, flying monkey gods, magic weapons, demon armies, and divine love,...
| Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
| ISBN | 1416918833 |
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
I have been going through the reviews to see if anybody read between the lines as I did, and from the few I've read it doesn't seem like it. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but this is what I've noticed:
Tomas = Foreign Interference
Y'Tin - South...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0618496416 |
Travel with the scientists as they trek deep into the New Guinea wilderness to locate the elusive Matschie's tree kangaroo.
The photography featured in this book is nothing short of stunning. The full color photographs include both scenic pieces, which
capture the beauty of the...
| Author | Huynh Quang Nhuong |
| ISBN | 0064401839 |
An ALA Notable Children’s Book and a Booklist Editors’ Choice, about one young man’s memories of the land he called home.
The land I love was lost to me forever.
Huynh Quang Nhuong grew up in the highlands of Vietnam, next to the jungle teeming with wildlife. Encounters with tigers,...
| Author | Sharon E. McKay |
| ISBN | 1554514886 |
This is the graphic novel edition of Sharon McKay's novel set in Uganda, where Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has, since 1987, abducted up to 30,000 children from their villages and homes for use as soldiers and slaves. It is in these nightmarish times that the fates of 5 boys and a girl...
The Little Book of Hindu Deities: From the Goddess of Wealth to the Sacred Cow
| Author | Sanjay Patel |
| ISBN | 0452287758 |
Pixar animator and Academy Award–nominated director Sanjay Patel (Sanjay’s Super Team) brings to life Hinduism’s most important gods and goddesses (and one sacred stone) in fun, full-color illustrations, each accompanied by a short, lively profile. The Little Book of Hindu Deities is chock-full...
| Author | Eugene Yelchin |
| ISBN | 0805092161 |
One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011
Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:
The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.
A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.
A...
So, You Want to Be Canadian: All About the Most Fascinating People in the World and the Magical Place They Call Home
| Author | Kerry Colburn |
| ISBN | 0811845354 |
So, you want to be Canadian? Who doesn't these days? Canucks are enjoying a major renaissance in attention, from their enlightened social policies to their wild and wooly pop culture. This playful, trivia-packed book is a long-overdue celebration of all things Canadian, from the mysteries of "eh?"...
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War
| Author | Jessica Dee Humphreys |
| ISBN | 1771381264 |
The author's memoir of his early life in Congo and the time he was kidnapped by rebels to be trained as a child soldier. He speaks of the harsh realities of his young life, his escape, his stolen childhood that cannot ever be returned even after he's back home, and his eventual immigration to Canada. An honest,...
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 0064408191 |
Like many girls her age in the India of her time period, thirteen-year-old-Koly is getting married. Full of hope and courage, she leaves home forever. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled about exactly what she is marrying into....
