fairy4tmama Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Can we start a list of living geography books? I am looking ahead to next year when we will be covering world geography and would love to start gathering some books. Here are some of the ones I have looked at They Put Out to Sea: The Story of the Map On the Same Day in March: A Tour of the World's Weather [/url] Around the World in 80 Tales Around the World in Eighty Days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 It is a work in progress, but I am getting it organized. Hopefully, I'll be getting a schedule together soon. General World Geography A Child's Introduction to the World: Geography, Cultures, and People - From the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall of China Children Just Like Me: A Unique Celebration of Children around the World How People Live Material World North America and South America Literature- Rascal, Water Sky, The Corn Grows Ripe, Rain Forest Adventures Biographies- The Face of Pancho Villa, Simon Bolivar: Latin American Liberator Tales- The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folk Tales Europe Literature- Snow Treasure, Breaking Stalin’s Nose, Around the World in 80 Days (The Whole Story) Shakespeare- Macbeth Biography- George Mueller: Father to the Fatherless Tales- Hidden Tales of Eastern Europe, D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths Africa Literature- Listening for Lions, Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai Biography- Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (children’s version) Tales- Tales from Africa, Beat the Story Drum Asia Northern Africa Moving through the Mediterranean Region of the Middle East Literature- King of the Wind, Adam and his Kin Biography- Rumi Tales- Clouds of Glory: Legends and Stories about Bible Times Middle East Literature- Shadow Spinner Biography- Muhammad Tales- The Arabian Nights not sure which version Central Asia Literature- Daughter of the Mountains, The Cat Who Went to Heaven Biographies- Gandhi, Mother Teresa not sure which book Tales- Just So Stories (I have an old version on my shelf), Ramayana: Divine Loophole Eastern Asia Literature- Li Lun, Lad of Courage; The Land I Lost; The Master Puppeteer; The Big Wave (Hmm, somehow I have just ended up with literature from this region. Maybe I should rethink what we are doing here. Maybe I will ditch The Master Puppeteer and find a book on Confucius.) Oceania Literature- Call It Courage Tales- Stories from the Billabong HTH- Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bula Mama Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 (edited) Great list, Mandy! A Child's Geography Explore His Earth http://www.amazon.com/Childs-Geography-Explore-His-Earth/dp/1932786325/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331376638&sr=1-1 A Child's Geography Explore the Holy Land http://www.amazon.com/Childs-Geography-Explore-Holy-Land/dp/1932786333/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331376638&sr=1-2 Paddle to the Sea http://www.amazon.com/Paddle-----Sea-Sandpiper-Books/dp/0395292034/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331376608&sr=8-1 Queen's Homeschool has a revised version of Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography http://www.queenhomeschool.com/alphapage/alphaframe.html Edited March 10, 2012 by Bula Mama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekirby Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 All these are amazing resources, keep the links coming! Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 All the Holling C Hollings books--Paddle to The Sea has been mentioned. There's 3 more, too. Hans Brinker Heidi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amie Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 http://www.goodlifeeats.com/books/childrens-books-for-the-georgraphy-buff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 All the Holling C Hollings books--Paddle to The Sea has been mentioned. There's 3 more, too. Hans Brinker Heidi Yes. Tree in the Trail, Pagoo, and Minn in the Mississippi. Penny Gardner has a neat list here: http://www.pennygardner.com/geography.html And this has been recently recommend, possibly for upper/middle students and above: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/1593501080/ref=aw_d_cr_books This one may be for middle/highschoolers, not sure http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1568251041/ref=aw_d_detail?pd=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairy4tmama Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Wow, these are great! I Have just spent the last 30 minutes adding things to my wish list. :auto: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I'm sorry I can't credit the person who made the following list, but I saved this years ago. a book by DK called Children Just Like Me: Celebrations! Children From Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World, by Maya Ajmera and Ana Rhesa Versola. Australia: Pumpkin Runner, Arnold Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Baker Bossy Boots, Cox Bright Star, Crew Dial-a-Croc, Dumbleton Flood Fish, Eversole Possum Magic, Fox (home?) Big Rain Coming, Germein Don’t Dig so Deep, Nicholas! Harrison Counting by Kangaroos, Hulme Ernie Dances to the Didgeridoo, Lester Wombat Goes Walkabout, Morpurgo Rainforest Children, Pittawpy Farmer Schulz’s Ducks, Thiele Snap! Vaughan Wombat Stew, Vaughan Biggest Frog in Australia (home) Rescuers Down Under – video A Waltz Through the Hills – video Old Shell, New Shell, Ward Old Woman Who Loved to Read, Winch Brazil: Count your way through Brazil, Haskins How Night Came From the Sea, Gerson Amazon Boy, Lewin In a Bottle with a Cork on Top, Skurzynski China: Ruby’s Wish, Bridges Story of Kites, Compestine Visit to China, Packard Moon Festival, Russell Chinese New Year, Schaefer Chinatown, Low My Chinatown: One Year in Poems, Mak Dominican Republic: Dominican Republic – Cobblestone Ecuador: Kid’s Discover: Equator France: King’s Day: Louis XIV of France, Aliki Giraffe that Walked to Paris, Milton Joan of Arc: Heroine of France, Tompert King Tree, French Boneparte, Chall Happy Lion, Fatio Happy Lion in Africa, Fatio Happy Lion’s Quest Happy Lion’s Rabbits Happy Lion’s Treasure Happy Lion’s Vacation Three Happy Lions (do all these really have to do with France?) Jean-Marie at the Fair, Francoise (and other Jean-Marie books) Inspector Peckit, Freeman Dinner at Mabritte’s, Garland Truffle Hunter, Moore Harry and Lulu, Yorinks Guatemala: Mama and Papa have a Store, Carling Abuela’s Weave, Castaneda Sleeping Bread: Story, Czernecki Iguana Beach, Franklin Hungary: Song for Lena, Hippely India: Heart of a Tiger, Arnold Story of Little Babaji, Bannerman Story of Little Black Sambo, Bannerman Lakshui, the Water Buffalo Who Wouldn’t, Gobhai Cow for Jaya, Grant Poombah of Badoombah, Lillegard Baya, Baya, Lulla-by-a, McDonald Gay-Neck: Story of a Pidgeon, Mukerji (audio) Golden Serpent, Myers Rikki-Tikki – video Nine Animals and the Well, Rumford Japan: Old Man who Made the Trees Bloom, Jijii Magic Fan, Baker Crane Girl, Charles Painter and the Wild Swans, Clement How My Parents Learned to Eat, Friedman (audio) Ten Oni Drummers, Gollub Girl from the Snow Country, Hidaka Kenji and the Magic Geese, Johnson Yoshi’s Feast, Kajikawa Carp for Kimiko, Kroll Seven Gods of Luck, Kudler Yoshiko and the Foreigner, Little Moshi, Moshi, London Dragon Kite, Luenn Pair of Red Clogs, Matsuno Cherry Tree, MacCaughrean Emperor’s Plum Tree, Nikly Tea with Milk, Say Long Silk Strand, Williams Kenya: Ndito Runs, Anderson Family in Kenya, Griffin Lithuania: Music of the Soviet Union (Lithuanian folksongs) Lithuania, Lerner Publications Mexico: Mexico ABC’s, Hieman Hummingbird’s Gift, Czernecki Manuela’s Gift, Estes Nine Days to Christmas, Ets Under the Lemon Moon, Fine How Nanita Learned to Make Flan, Geeslin In Rosa’s Mexico, Geeslin On Ramon’s Farm, Geeslin Moon was at a Fiesta, Gollub Twenty-five Mixtec Cats, Gollub Lorenzo, the Naughty Parrot, Johnston Day of the Dead, Johnston Magic Maguey, Johnston Ghost Wings, Joosse Piggy Bank Gonzales, Kent Butterfly Boy, Kroll Hill of Fire, Lewis (audio) Blanca’s Feather, Madrigal Trandi’s Braids, Madrigal Blue Bug Visits Mexico, Poulet Today is the Day, Riecken Mice and Beans, Ryan Nigeria: Take a Trip to Nigeria, Lye Bikes for Rent! Olaleye Grandfather’s Work, Onyefulu Mysterious Gold and Purple Box, Watson Saying Goodbye, Onyefulu Oman: An Arab Family, Dutton Philippines: Take a Trip to the Philippines, Oleksy Qatar: Qatar, Augustin Russia: A Look at Russia, Frost Babushka Babayaga, Polacco Philipok, Tolstoy Little Kim’s Doll, Yaroshevskaya Three Cheers for Catherine the Great, Best (audio) Apple Pie and Onions, Caseley A Piece of Home, Levitin Trees of the Dancing Goats, Polacco Uncle Vova’s Tree, Polacco Dream Jar, Pryor Twenty-two Russian Tales for Young Children, Tolstoy Senegal: In Bikole: Eight Modern Stories About Life in a West African Village, Gilroy Senegal in Pictures, Lerner Publications Turkey: Take a Trip to Turkey, Lye United States Since we’re also doing a more specific US study, I’ve chosen books from all the other “U†countries: Ukraine: Ukraine – Cobblestone Uganda: Beatrice’s Goat, McBrier (this is about the Heifer Project) Uruguay: Uruguay in Pictures, Haverstock United Kingdom: The Queen’s Progress: An Elizabethan Alphabet, Davidson Anno’s Britain, Anno Country Mouse Cottage: How we Lived 100 Years Ago, Brooks Town Mouse House: How we Lived 100 Years Ago, Brooks Vietnam: Vietnam, Allard Lotus Seed, Garland Grandfather’s Dream, Keller Walking Stick, Trottier Western Samoa: Samoans – Cobblestone Yemen: Yemen in Pictures, Lerner Publications Zimbabwe: Gugu’s House, Stock Where are You Going, Manyoni? 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Tina Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Same with this list: Alabama: A Picture Book of Rosa Parks - Adler From Plant to Blue Jeans - Hommedieu (re: cotton) Life on a Plantation - Kalman Plantations - Stone Eli Whitney - Alter Alaska: Mama Do You Love Me? A Child's Alaska Mush! Circle of Thanks Akiak Arizona: Tuesday in Arizona Cottonwood Trees - Prevost Squirrel's Song - Wolkstein Is My Friend at Home? Bierhorst Arkansas: Come Go With Me: Old Time Stories From the Southern Mountains - Thomas (re: Oachita Mountains) California: How Far Felipe? Smoky Night Condor's Egg Striking it Rich Nine for California Colorado: Fat Chance Claude Stones, Bones and Petroglyphs - Goodman Native Americans and Mesa Verde - Martell Connecticut: Solomon Grundy Warm as Wool (or Ohio?) Delaware: The Legend of the Cranberry The Light in the Forest (books on tape) Standing in the Light (video) Florida: Elizabeth and Larry and Ed A Visit to Grandma's St. Augustine (video) A Kid's Guide to Florida The Great Pig Search Freddy Goes to Florida All Dressed up and Nowhere to Go My Family Vacation The Worst Goes South Beezy Georgia: Georgia Music Peach and Blue - Kilborne A Confederate Girl - Steele Mama and Me and the Model T Hawaii: The Last Princess: Ka'Iulani - Guzzetti Haleakalala National Park - Radlander Hawaii in Words and Pictures - Fradin The Last Hawaiian Queen - Stanley The Island Below the Star Dear Katie, the Volcano is a Girl - George Punia and the King of Sharks Luka's Quilt Idaho: Mailing May Wolf: Return of a Legend (video re: Sawtooth Mountains) One Potato - Porter Sunday Potatoes, Monday Potatoes - Shiefman More Potatoes - Belsam Potato - Watts The Enormous Potato - Davis Potato: A Tale From the Great Depression - Leid Illinois: The Journey Joshua's Westward Journal Indiana: The Floating House Story of Johnny Appleseed - Aliki True Tale of Johnny Appleseed - Hodges Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale - Steven Kellogg Johnny Appleseed: The Story of a Legend - Will Moses A Place Called Freedom Iowa: Eve and Smithy Story of Paul Bunyan - Emberly Kansas: Wagon Wheels The Loudest, Fastest, Best Drummer in Kansas Climbing Kansas Mountains The Van Gogh Cafe Kentucky: Your Best Friend, Kate Daniel Boone Just in Time for Christmas Kentucky Troll: Mysteries Underground (nat. geo. video on Mammoth Cave, et al) 'B' is for Bluegrass Kentucky in Words and Pictures Louisiana: Why Lapin's Ears are Long All the "Clovis Crawfish" books Mimi and Jean Paul's Cajun Mardi Gras Cajun Through and Through Feydra Leroux: A Cajun Tall-Tale Maine: Blueberries for Sal One Morning in Maine Miss Rumphius Grandpappy Grandmother Bryant's Pocket Time of Wonder Maryland: Molly Bannaky Massachusetts: Make Way for Ducklings Cranberry Thanksgiving She's Wearing a Dead Bird on her Head A Picture Book of Paul Revere Plimoth Plantation (video) Across the Wide, Dark Sea Paul Revere's Midnight Ride Which Way to the Revolution Letting Swift River Go Michigan: Paul Bunyan: How a Terrible Timber Fellar Became a Legend - Rogers Paul Bunyan Fights the Monster Plants - Blassingame The Christmas Tree Ship The Log Cabin Church Mrs. Mack Minnesota: Follow the Stars: A Native American Woodlands Tale - Rodanas Legend of the Lady Slipper - Lunge-Larsen Sacred Harvest: Wild Rice - Reggiunti Mississippi: Freedom School, Yes! Oh Lord, I Wish I was a Buzzard Grandaddy's Gift Little Toot on the Mississippi Missouri: Mark Twain and Huck Finn - Ross River Boy: The Story of Mark Twain - Anderson Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi - Harness Mark Twain? What Kind of Name is That? Quackenbush (what kind of name is *that*?) Tom Sawyer, Danger in the Graveyard - Richardson Tom Sawyer Gives up the Brush (video - 30 minutes) Wagons West! Fiddlin' Sam Dengler There Goes Lowell's Party - Hershenhorn Montana: Once We Had a Horse Nebraska: Dandelions The Huckabuck Family Nevada: Tulip Sees America (covers several states) Any books on desert life, particularly the Mojave, would work for studying this state. Books on red rock canyonlands would also work. New Hampshire: Ox Cart Man (or is this Vermont?) Lucy's Summer Sara Whitcher's Story New Jersey: The Colony of New Jersey The 18 Penny Goose New Mexico: Josephina books Spanish and Colonial Santa Fe (video) Carlos and the Cornfield Cowboy's Roundup on an American Ranch Los Posadas: An Hispanic Christmas Celebration Grandmother's Adobe House New York: My New York How Pizza Came to Queens Anna, Grandpa and the Big Storm The Inside-Outside Book of New York City Liberty The Story of the Statue of Liberty Joe and the Skyscraper Under New York North Carolina: Back Home My Great Aunt Arizona Mountain Boy The Colony of North Carolina The Jack Tales Grandfather's Land: We are Mountain People - Fitch North Dakota: River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz Thrashin' Time: Harvest Days in the Dakotas Ohio: Aurora Means Dawn Lentil (Warm as Wool may fit better here than previously stated state) Flatboats on the Ohio: Westward Bound Oklahoma: I Have Heard of a Land Angels in the Dust They Came From the Bronx: How the Buffalo Were Saved Oregon: Oregon's Journey Long Ago in Oregon Roughing it on the Oregon Trail Pennsylvania: Just Plain Fancy A Humble Life: Plain Poems The Folks in the Valley The Egg Tree The Colony of Pennsylvania Pioneer Church Bewildered for Three Days Punxatawney Phil Rhode Island: Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams The Colony of Rhode Island Loud and Crowing (Rhode Island Red roosters) Roger Williams and Rhode Island (video) South Carolina: Carolina Shout! The Colony of South Carolina South Dakota: Mount Rushmore (two titles) Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox - Bleeter Tennessee: Swamp Angel Davy Crockett (Rabbit Ears, w/ tape) Lucky with Potatoes (do they grow these in Tennessee?) Texas: Legend of the Bluebonnet Beats Me, Claude Armadillo Rodeo Bluebonnet at Dinosaur Valley State Park Bubba the Cowboy Prince Susanna of the Alamo The Inside-Outside Book of Texas Armadillo from Amarillo The West Texas Chili Monster Jalepeno Hal The Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea Fish Fry Freedom's Gifts: A Juneteenth Story Ganzy Remembers Prairie Christmas A Cowboy Named Ernestine Utah: Salt Lake City - Doubleday Grandfather's Gold Watch Vermont: Least of All The Wonderful Hay Tumble Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Snowflake Bentley Virginia: The Relatives Came When the Whipoorwill Calls One Christmas Dawn Appalachia: Voices of Sleeping Birds The Blue Hill Meadows Night in the Country This Year's Garden Washington: Island Time A Horse's Tale West Virginia: When I was Young in the Mountains In November But I'll be Back Again Scarecrow Silver Packages Waiting to Waltz Wisconsin: Giant Ball of String Dance at Grandpa's Christmas in the Big Woods Winter Days in the Big Woods The Deer in the Wood Going to Town Summertime in the Big Woods Wyoming: Tonweya and the Eagles - YellowRobe Lakota Hoop Dancer - LeftHandBull Iktomi and the Buzzard - Goble Jack Creek Cowboy Washington, D.C.: Capitol: Washington, D.C. From A to Z The White House The Wall Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D.C. Puerto Rico: The Outside Dog Take a Trip to Puerto Rico Sergio and the Hurricane Abuelita's Paradise Virgin Islands: The Day the Hurricane Happened Izzard Pacific Territories: U.S. Territories and Possessions Pacific Islands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 You might also like the books listed in Ambleside Online's booklist by year, which includes the great Holling books, Kon Tiki, and more: http://amblesideonline.org/index2.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I have a lengthy list on my blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairy4tmama Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 This thread is such a great resource for me in beginning to plan our next years focus on geography, Thank you! I thought I would link this thread about Geography read alouds because it has some great suggestions as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraKay28 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Wow, great book lists here! I am thinking of doing a block schedule next year, and having one of the days a geography day. This would help a lot! Thanks, everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aja Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Wow, Tina! Those lists are great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Luckily I'm a saver. lol Wish I knew who to thank! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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