Sixth-grader Alton Barnes loves maps, and when his portfolio of secret maps is stolen, he begins getting notes with orders that he must obey to get the maps back but, with the help of a popular classmate, he just might succeed before his teacher, principal, or someone else learns he has been studying and mapping things about them.

The Cat in the Hat teaches Dick and Sally about cartography and the uses of different kinds of maps.

"Meet Clarke and Miguel! They are new friends. They love going on adventures! Together, they make a map of their town. And they find a sweet treasure!"--

"Discusses how people make sense of Earth by making maps and introduces globes, flat maps, and the idea of making borders"--Provided by publisher.

This multimedia book and DVD kit covers the entire world! Featuring 160 ready-made maps of every country and major geographical area, it is a revolutionary new resource to be used at home, for vacation, and in the classroom. The DVD contains the maps themselves, each in the form of a PC and Mac friendly Photoshop file. Inside the book, there are simple instructions for adapting those maps to your own requirements, and then printing them out, distributing...

"Presents fifty maps of countries around the world, which include facts about the geography, history, wildlife, flags, and culture of each." --

"A collection of astounding, fun and beautiful maps explaining everything about Planet Earth (and some other places!). It's a treasure trove of quirky and essential data, presented in fun, fascinating map form. If you want to know where the world's dog and cat breeds come from, what the Earth looked like 170 million years ago, where the best place in the world is to put a solar panel, how to find the hidden scene in the map of the USA, who brings...