Children Map the World: Selections from the Barbara Petchenik Children's World Map Competition

by Alberta Auringer Wood, Jeet Atwal, Patrick Wiegand, et al.

Book Overview

100 world maps drawn, painted, crayoned, sewn, and knitted by children over the past decade are featured in this retrospective survey of the work of young cartographers and symbologists. Many of the images are arresting and offer a wide variety of perspective; younger children's maps are often accompanied by comforting images of childhood, such as teddy bears or birthday cakes, while older children tend to show images of poverty, disease, and warfare...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589481259
• ISBN13: 9781589481251
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Esri Press
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Has a place in school libraries and public document collections around the world

"Children Map the World: Selections from the Barbara Petchenik Children's World Map Competition, Volume 2" is showcases artistic creations of maps created by children ages 44-15 drawn and selected from around the world, resulting from a memorial competition held in honor of Barbara Petchenik, a cartographer who studied how children understand maps and mapmaking. "Children Map the World" is a fresh and vibrant collection of children's windows to reality, with emphasis on themes of peace and universal cooperation. There are many interpretations of the children's views of global reality that are expressed in their colorful maps. "Children Map the World" is a vision suffused with hope and hopefulness for the future. It has a place in school libraries and public document collections around the world.

The world seen by children

This is a magnificent book - a selection of maps submitted by children from around the world, aged 5 to 15, to the International Cartographic Association. Their dreams, interests, hopes and fears are interwoven into these poignant portrayals of our planet, its beauty, and its woes. Having been totally mesmerized by the copy I received, I immediately ordered five more, for each of my grandchildren, and for gifts. This is a book as much for adults as children, and my only regret is that it is a paperback. I will encourage the children to treat the book with love and care, because this is a keeper for life - mine, and my grandchildren's.