BookWorm, Your Living List For Geography Books

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  • June 24, 2011 at 4:28 am
    AussieMummy
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    Would you be willing to share the list of books you have? 😉

    June 24, 2011 at 5:22 pm
    Bookworm
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    Well, most of our best-loved books are the good reliable AO selections.  We’ve loved the Hollings books of course, we love books like the Book of Marvels, Kon-Tiki.  We love Material World and Hungry Planet.  We have loved many Sonlight books.  We read lots of books set in other countries as a way to learn about them–the Sonlight lists are an especially good place to find these for younger kids.  I have lots of titles good for teens on my Goodreads lists.  Almost any book can be geography if you are interested.  You can get a GREAT geography education mapping the Ingalls family’s route around America.  Any book set in a different place can be geography.  Trying to think what else to list . . Ones we’ve included as “School” you can find on the AO lists or here. 

    June 24, 2011 at 10:55 pm
    AussieMummy
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    Thanks 🙂

    June 25, 2011 at 1:35 am
    missingtheshire
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    I will second Kon Tiki, we love The Book of Marvels and we loved Heidi’s Alp and Where the Heather Grows. We also really enjoy Edwin Way Teale books and the girls have learnt amazing amounts from his books – they are mostly out of print but they cover natural history and a fair amount of geography in the travel form – we mapped his travels. Endurance was a fantastic book and we watched a documentary to go with that and one daughter loved Eothen. These were during high school. There were more but I cannot think of them right now. We used a lot from the HEO book list. Linda

    June 25, 2011 at 12:25 pm
    RobinP
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    One series that is lesser known and a bit hard to find is The Children of All Lands Stories by Madeline Brandeis.  She and her daughter, Marie.  This is what she writes in the preface:

    “When I began to write these stories about children of all lands I had just returned from Europe whither I journeyed with Marie and Ref.  Maybe you don’t know Marie and Ref.  I’ll introduce them:  Please meet Marie, my very little daugher, and Ref, my very big reflex camera.

    These two are my helpers.  Marie helps by being a little girl who knows what other little girls llike and by telling me; and Ref helps by snapping pictures of everything interesting that Marie and I see on our travels.  I couldn’t get along without them.”

    These are delightful stories written mostly in the 30’s.  She wrote many including:

    The Little Indian Weaver

    The Wee Scotch Piper

    Little Philippe of Belgium

    The LIttle Dutch Tulip Girl, etc.

      Another great series is the Twins series by Lucy Fitch Perkins.  Many of these are now available as free ebooks and some are being reprinted.

    Both of these series are wonderful and are valuable for geography/history/culture.

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