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Overview
Geography is more than maps and globes, more than latitude and longitude lines, more than continents, oceans, islands, and your own neighborhood.
In Got Geography! Lee Bennett Hopkins gathers vivid poems by sixteen poets and Philip Stanton creates glorious artwork to show that geography isn't just about finding your way. It's the jumping-off point for dreams and imagination.
If you've got geography, you're ready for adventure. . . .
Synopsis
Geography is more than maps and globes, more than latitude and longitude lines, more than continents, oceans, islands, and your own neighborhood.
In Got Geography! Lee Bennett Hopkins gathers vivid poems by sixteen poets and Philip Stanton creates glorious artwork to show that geography isn't just about finding your way. It's the jumping-off point for dreams and imagination.
If you've got geography, you're ready for adventure. . . .
Karen Leggett - Children's Literature
Lee Bennett Hopkins has already collected poetry about Marvelous Math and Spectacular Science. Now he has found poems that celebrate islands, mountains and forests as well as early explorers, the compass and even longitude and latitude. A few of the selections seem forced but many others are clever and memorable: "If I were the equator/I would have an attitude/I'd boast the most about my no degrees of latitude . . . " In Joan Bransfield Graham's "Awesome Forces" we read that "lava flows,/geysers gush,/canyons are carved by a river's push." There is even an excerpt from "Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance To" in which Carl Sandburg explains that "when you dance it is the North Pole or the South Pole pulling on your feet like magnets to keep your feet on the earth." Philip Stanton's oversized primitive illustrations are bold and colorful. Poetry is a novel way to draw attention to geography and these poems certainly have the potential to spark more interest than finding continents or capitals on a photocopied map. 2006, Greenwillow, Ages 6 to 12.
Editorials
Children's Literature
Lee Bennett Hopkins has already collected poetry about Marvelous Math and Spectacular Science. Now he has found poems that celebrate islands, mountains and forests as well as early explorers, the compass and even longitude and latitude. A few of the selections seem forced but many others are clever and memorable: "If I were the equator/I would have an attitude/I'd boast the most about my no degrees of latitude . . . " In Joan Bransfield Graham's "Awesome Forces" we read that "lava flows,/geysers gush,/canyons are carved by a river's push." There is even an excerpt from "Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance To" in which Carl Sandburg explains that "when you dance it is the North Pole or the South Pole pulling on your feet like magnets to keep your feet on the earth." Philip Stanton's oversized primitive illustrations are bold and colorful. Poetry is a novel way to draw attention to geography and these poems certainly have the potential to spark more interest than finding continents or capitals on a photocopied map. 2006, Greenwillow, Ages 6 to 12.—Karen Leggett