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Subject: children's book on early US Coastal mapping
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 12:54:38 -0500
From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>


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Dear Mapsters,

The Sunday NY Times book review gives this new book a positive review.

The Coast Mappers, written and illustrated by Taylor Morrison.  48 pp.
Boston: Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin Company.  $16 (All ages)


I suspect this might be a useful survey for map collections to have,
despite its youthful pretended audience.

We get these juvenile books to have around as models for writers who come
in and tell us they want to write a childrens' book on maps. From the
review, I get the feeling this book might be a nice complement to more
technical histories on the same topic.

A second book reviewed positively was Sea Clocks, the story of Longitude by
Louise Borden, New York: Margaret K. McElderry books. (ages 7-9) Probably
we wont buy this, but some of you may want to know about it!


Happy reading.

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-278

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