Teacher Created Materials 9798330929672 Pub Date: 11/24/2026 $9.99 Trade Paperback 32 Pages Full-color Carton Qty: 180 Ages 4 to 8, Grades K to 2 Juvenile Nonfiction / Places JNF038000 Series: Knowledge Builders: Social Studies Readers Related Products Ebooks 9798330931514 9798330935161 9798330932474 Maps and Globes Are Where It's At Dona Herweck Rice Key Selling Points Builds understanding of the key concepts that shape communities and societies. The Knowledge Builders: Social Studies series helps children explore the essential concepts that shape communities and societies. Each engaging nonfiction title combines clear, accessible text with vivid visuals-making complex ideas easy to understand and exciting to explore. Includes Maps, timelines, diagrams, and primary source imagery Hands-on activities, annotated visuals, foldout maps Learn how to find locations, understand land and water, and read important map features. Summary Children discover how maps and globes help us understand the world In Maps and Globes Are Where It’s At, children explore how these tools show land, water, and important locations. Clear explanations introduce key features such as symbols, directions, and scale, helping readers build confidence in using geographic tools. Two fold-out maps provide hands-on opportunities to practice skills and explore new places. By learning how to read maps and globes, children develop spatial thinking and foundational geography knowledge. Maps and Globes Are Where It’s At: Builds map-reading confidence Introduces key geographic features Encourages hands-on exploration Understanding maps opens the door to the world. Contributor Bio Dona Herweck Rice is the prolific author of books, stories, and poems for children of all ages. She’s written hundreds of books and more on just about every topic under the sun, from acrobats to zucchini and everything in between. She has also written award- winning books and curriculums for educators, especially on the subjects of writing and language arts. In fact, her first publications were a series for teachers on how to teach writing in the classroom. She spearheaded the development of Write TIME for Kids, which earned the Golden Lamp award for curriculum from the Association of American Publishers. Her writing is featured heavily in such acclaimed series as Focused Phonics, Untold Stories, Fiction Readers, Nonfiction Readers, Learn and Create, and more. Dona’s best-selling children’s title with more than 13,000 copies is How Plants Grow, and her most recent titles include dozens of books for the Exploration Storytime series, two titles in the Curious Me!™ board book series, and Ride with Rampage in partnership with the Los Angeles Rams. When Dona visits classrooms to talk about being an author, the most requested titles include History’s Mysteries, Bad Guys and Gals of the Wild West, and Oh, Rats!––the latter being one of Dona’s particular favorites. Dona is the creator of Cam E. Chameleon, the enchanting little reptile featured in her books The Adventures of Cam E. Chameleon and Cam and Sam’s Colorful Adventure. Observant readers can also find Cam singing and dancing throughout the illustrated TCM FSP Shell and CUB 2026 Titles
