Children Map the Worl: Selections from the Barbara Petchenik Children's World Map Competition - Softcover

Anderson, Jackie; Atwal, Jeet; Wiegand, Patrick; Wood, Alberta Auringer

9781589481251: Children Map the Worl: Selections from the Barbara Petchenik Children's World Map Competition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589481259 ISBN 13: 9781589481251

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005

Children Map the World 100 world maps drawn, painted, crayoned, sewn, and knitted by children over the past decade are featured in this retrospective survey of the work of young cartographers and symbologists. Many of the images are arresting and offer a wide variety of perspective; younger children's maps are often accompanied by comforting images of childhood, such as teddy bears or birthday cakes, while older childre... Full description

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About the Author:

Jacqueline M. Anderson is an associate professor at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is the chair of the Cartography and Children Commission, International Cartographic Association. Jeet Atwal is a map specialist at Carleton University Library in Ottawa, Canada. Atwal is curator and webmaster of the Barbara Petchenik Children's Map Competition. Patrick Wiegand is a reader in geography education at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He is chair of the Cartography and Children Commission, International Cartographic Association. Alberta Auringer Wood is the acting associate university librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's in Newfoundland, Canada. She was vice president of the International Cartographic Association from 1999 to 2003.

Synopsis:

This stimulating collection of children's work arose from the Barbara Petchenik Children's World Map Competition. This competition was created by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) in 1993 as a memorial for Ms. Petchenik, a cartographer who worked throughout her life with maps related to children. This book presents a retrospective selection of one hundred maps submitted over the first decade of the competition. It includes award-winning entries and runners-up as well as many that are the personal favourites of the editors. The maps reflect core values in surprisingly subtle and complex expressions, and messages embedded in the maps are sometimes complex and culturally unfamiliar. Nonetheless, the maps are accessible and inspirational.

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