Children's First Atlas

Author: Julian Agyeman Price: Medium: Hardcover (32 pages) Publisher: Belitha Press Ltd 1995-02-17

Editorial Description

The large-format atlas is intended to encourage the child to look at the world as a whole rather than as isolated regions of sea and land. The Peter's Projection is used throughout the book and is compared initially with the traditional Mercator projection as a means of introducing the basics of map reading and cartography to young readers. Features such as forests, oceans, rivers and cities are located on a full world map and a scale box on each spread reinforces the visual information by giving figures or amazing facts relevant to the subject featured.