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Claire Annette Noland

Y – Are We There Yet?

April 28, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 9 Comments

Y – Are We There Yet?

Y is for Yet as in – Are we there yet? Is there any traveler who hasn’t asked that question or had to answer that question? It is a popular book topic with many sharing clever suggestions on how to make the journey more enjoyable. But, for those trips being taken through the pages of […]

Filed Under: book maps, Bookish Field Trips, Books, picture books, Places Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Are We There Yet? Alison Lester, Maps in Children's Books, Peter Brown, You Will Be My Friend!

X Marks the Spot

April 28, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 5 Comments

X Marks the Spot

X marks the spot is a popular title. And, why not? It conjures up visions of adventure and treasure. Who would’t want to find a map marked with an X? Share these books with the children in your life and take off on a literary treasure hunt- X Marks the Spot  by R. Schuyler (author) and […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, ABCs Coloring Book: X is for X Marks the Spot!, Maps in Children's Books, The Truth about my Unbelievable Summer..., X Marks the Spot

Wind in the Willows – a classic map

April 26, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 8 Comments

Wind in the Willows – a classic map

  This map found in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham, is one of the classic maps many of us hold dear. It was drawn by  Ernest H. Shepard who also drew the map in Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne. The map, however, was not in the original edition of the book written […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books, Quotes Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Maps in Children's Books, Wind in the Willows

V is for Vintage Maps in Children’s Books

April 26, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 16 Comments

V is for Vintage Maps in Children’s Books

Maps are visual art that communicates information to give us a sense of place. We read maps and we read books. And, in my opinion, books containing maps are the best kind of books. I’ve shared many maps this past month for the A to Z April Blog Challenge and I could easily go on […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books, picture books Tagged With: A Squirrel Called Rufus, a to z blog challenge, Maps in Children's Books, Maystery Manor, Milly Molly Mandy, The Bamboo Bird, The Blue Cat of Castletown, The Children's Book of London, The Land of Health, The Little White Horse, The Map That Came to Life, The Young Australian Alphabet, Toby Twirl Adventures

Under the Sea – mapping an unknown world

April 23, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 3 Comments

Under the Sea – mapping an unknown world

  Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea; Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor by Robert Burleigh (author)  Raúl Colón (illustrator) Simon & Schuster (2016) picture book biography grades Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea is a book for anyone interested in maps and map-making. It tells the story of Marie Tharp who,as a girl, loved maps. She […]

Filed Under: Biographies, Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books, Family Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Maps in Children's Books, Marie Tharps, Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea; Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor, undersea treasure

Treasure Island – the story of the map that inspired a book

April 22, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 8 Comments

Treasure Island – the story of the map that inspired a book

I still remember the day that I opened an old copy of Treasure Island and read these words:   And so begins one of the world’s greatest pirate novels with arguably the most well-known map included in a book. This is the classic adventure written by Robert Louis Stevenson, which tells the tale of the […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Maps in Children's Books, Treasure Island

Swallows! Ahoy! adventures illustrated with maps

April 21, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 11 Comments

Swallows! Ahoy! adventures illustrated with maps

‘Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!’ This year for the A to Z Blog Challenge, I have been on the lookout for maps in children’s literature. When I shared my theme, a number of bloggers asked if I was going to write about Swallows and Amazons. I answered, “of, course!” But, truth be told, I had never […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books, Uncategorized

R is for Redwall – a world with maps

April 20, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 7 Comments

R is for Redwall – a world with maps

Fantasy series are the ones that most generously include maps which enable readers immediately enter and gain an understanding of the world the characters inhabit. The Redwall series is not exception. REDWALL by Brian Jacques (author) Troy Howell (cover artist) maps drawn by different artists series began in 1986 and ended in 2011 Redwall is […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Maps in Children's Books, Redwall Maps

Q is for Quilts – Leading the way to freedom

April 19, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 9 Comments

Q is for Quilts – Leading the way to freedom

Slavery is a difficult but important topic to teach to young children. One of the best ways is to share stories featuring the amazing Freedom Quilt Maps. These quilts sewn with block patterns  were displayed as signals to slaves as they set out to the north during on the Underground Railroad. Because quilts were so […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Multicultural Children's Books, picture books Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Freedom Quilts, Maps in Children's Books, Patchwork Path: a Quilt Map to Freedom, Secret to Freedom, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

P is for Passport, Paper Towns, and a Parade

April 18, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 10 Comments

P is for Passport, Paper Towns, and a Parade

I am always up for a trip somewhere out of the country where I can use my passport. I’ve had many passports over the years and it’s fun to look through them and see the stamps from the many places I’ve been. But, am I the only one who never likes their passport photo? In […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Literary Maps, Maps in Children's Books, Mermaids on Parade, P is for passport, Paper Towns

To Oz! on a wonderful journey through children’s literary maps.

April 17, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 7 Comments

To Oz! on a wonderful journey through children’s literary maps.

Today for the letter O on the A to Z Blog Challenge,  we’re traveling over the rainbow and down the yellow brick road using maps of the Land of Oz. This map was created for Frank L. Baum’s 1908 play and lecture series, The Fairylogue and Radio Plays that were intended to promote the first […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Maps in Children's Books, Wizard of Oz Maps

Onward and Upward to Narnia and the North

April 16, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 9 Comments

Onward and Upward to Narnia and the North

We’ve reached the Letter N on the A to Z Blog Challenge and have arrived in Narnia.   I venture to say that most of you reading this little post are familiar with the maps of Narnia and the author of The Chronicles, C. S. Lewis. The art and the maps of the original The […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia Maps, Literary maps from A to Z, Maps in Children's Books, Pauline Baynes

Maps

April 15, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 5 Comments

Maps

I am participating in the A to Z April Blog Challenge which encourages people to write posts on a theme each day (except Sunday)  with the alphabet determining each day’s topic. I am on a literary journey looking at maps in children’s books and have reached the midpoint of the challenge. I have far too […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Maps, Maps in Children's Books, The Magic Map Book

Lost!

April 14, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 7 Comments

Lost!

Lost? Then you need a map! Lucy in the City by Julie Dillemuth (author) and Laura Wood (illustrator) Magination Press Lucy and her raccoon family head out into the night in search of dinner. Lucy is so busy licking the jar of peanut butter that she doesn’t hear her father say “Time to go!” She […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Field Trips, Graphic Novels, picture books Tagged With: Blogging a to z, Field Trip to NYC Subways, Larry Gets Lost in New York City, Lost in NYC, Lucy in the City, Maps in Children's Books

Kingdom Maps in Kid Lit

April 12, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 9 Comments

Kingdom Maps in Kid Lit

What’s a literary kingdom without a map? Fantasy is the genre where fantastic maps abound. Maps provide guides to adventures held within the pages.  For today’s April A to Z Blog Challenge, I’d like to share some series that will bring you into some very different kingdoms. The Kingdom of Wrenly by Jordan Quinn (author) […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books Tagged With: Geronimo Stilton, K is for Kingdoms, Kingdom Of Fantasy, Maps in Children's Literature, The Kingdom of Wrenly, Tortall and Other Lands

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