There's a Map on My Lap!: All About Maps (Cat in the Hat's Lrning Libry) | 
| Author: Tish Rabe
Creator: Aristides Ruiz
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 9978
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 48
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0375810994
Dewey Decimal Number: 912
EAN: 9780375810992
ASIN: 0375810994
Publication Date: September 24, 2002
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Condition: New book w/perfect interior; exterior has slight wear
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Product Description
The Cat in the Hat introduces beginning readers to maps–the different kinds (city, state, world, topographic, temperature, terrain, etc.); their formats (flat, globe, atlas, puzzle); the tools we use to read them (symbols, scales, grids, compasses); and funny facts about the places they show us (“Michigan looks like a scarf and a mitten! Louisiana looks like a chair you can sit in!”).
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Great for young children August 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a fun book for introducing young children to maps. I will use it in my early childhood classroom but I wish I'd had it when my own chldren were young. They would have loved it!
Map on My Lap March 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Children enjoyed this book. Used in map unit for PS and elem. settings.
Fun way to learn about maps January 4, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is classic Dr. Seuss...fun, silly, and children don't realize they're learning something. Great book for teaching about maps. I bought this for my 6 year old prior to going on vacation. We had been looking at maps and talking about what states we'd be driving through on our trip. He enjoyed listening to the book and because of the way the information is presented (fun and silly rhymes), he has retained what he learned. He has even referred back to specific bits of information we read from the book (i.e. Never Eat Shredded Wheat to remember North, East, South and West.)
The back of the book contains a glossary of terms mentioned in the book. Highly recommended as an additional tool for teaching about maps.
The best of this series! July 18, 2006
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library books are all great tools to get beginning readers to read and explore different topics at the same time.
There's a Map on my Lap is my favorite in this series. It explains in typical Cat in the Hat rhyme and stance all the different uses for maps.
It explains the difference between a globe and a map, what latitudes and longitudes and other features of maps are. You learn to read a map by using the windrose or a grid.
The book goes well beyond town or country maps. It features weather maps, topographical maps and even marine charts.
What truly separates this book from the crowd: it is shockfull of hands-on things to do. It begins with peeling an orange while leaving the skin in one piece to demonstrate what a world map should really look like - brilliant idea! Then it goes on to make a map of your room, town, imaginary countries. Or how to measure the length of a curved road on a map using a straight ruler and string.
At the end of the book you find a glossary that explains the "big" words like topographical map and others again. Also a list of more books about maps and globes for children.
If you like doing hands on things with your preschool through 2nd graders this book is for you! Hours of fun and education all rolled into one big happy Cat in the Hat poem.
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