num_pages: 44
description: This enchanting picture book about a map-making boy who is stumped when a girl asks him for a map of the perfect place helps readers appreciate the charms of their own neighborhood--and even shows them how to make a map of it! The Mapmaker loves maps. He loves to collect them to study them and most of all he loves to make them. But when a girl asks for a map of a perfect place the Mapmaker is perplexed. She wants a map to a toes-in-the-sand-warm X-marks-the-spot-place filled with treasures where it smells like her birthday and she can zip around like a dragonfly. Surely a place that is all of these things can't exist...can it? Well after a fun-filled day of exploring the neighborhood the Mapmaker will discover that the perfect place--home--has been right in front of him all along.Here is a picture book as creative as it is charming that celebrates home and is a gentle reminder to look around and appreciate what surrounds you.
language: English
title: The Boy Who Loved Maps
publisher:  Anne Schwartz Books