# Boy Who Loved Maps

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- Authors: [Kari Allen](https://www.bookquiver.com/kari-allen)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2022-07-12
- Genres: Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories

## 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.

## Editions

### Boy Who Loved Maps

- Publisher: Random House Children's Books
- ISBN: 978-19-8485-231-1
- Published: 2022-07-12
- Language: en_US