The Little Man In the Map: With Clues To Remember All 50 States
Review
The Little Man in the Map is an impressive undertaking and one that reflects excellent pedagogy. The use of rhyme, the reinforcement through visual cues, the clear structural breaks, and the reliance on a guide character all speak to effective teaching and learning... rhymes and visuals are really clever... I found the regular reviews and locator maps quite useful for tracking progress.
--Susan Schaffrath, Former President, McDougal Littell
MIM is an engaging program that students look forward to each learning session. It makes learning geography easier and exciting for students.
--Ann Marie Robles, fifth-grade teacher
The Little Man In the Map is outstanding! I... previewed, taught, reviewed and evaluated this wonderful program with my students.
--Kathy Moran,sixth-grade teacher
The Little Man In the Map was an excellent educational opportunity for my class. The students learned so much about the United States. --Kal DePaco, second- and third-grade teacher
Product Description
Learning all 50 U.S. states is easy when you learn from The Little Man In the Map! Asked by their teacher to find clues for memorizing the states, students begin to see imagesa hat, a shirt, a pair of boots formed by state boundaries. When they put some of them together, they're amazed to find the outline of a man standing in the middle of the map. Excited by their discovery, they draw a face and arms on him and create The Little Man In the Map, whom they nickname MIM. Their imaginations bring MIM alive, and with his help they discover the surprising roles all the states can play. Soon they can spot the elf, the playful dog, the spooky head, and all the others. This imaginatively illustrated story, narrated in rhyme by The Little Man In the Map, shows each state's part in its region and how it interacts with those around it. This makes learning their locations visual, easy, and fun.
MIM Awards as of 4/8/2009
Moonbeam Children s Book Awards
Silver Medal Winner Non-Fiction Picture Book
Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group
Silver Medal Winner Outstanding Book of the Year, Most Original Concept
2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Finalist Children s Picture Book
Finalist Education/Academic
ForeWord Magazine
Finalist - Book of the Year Award
USA Book News
Finalist Best Book Awards
Eric Hoffer Book Awards
2009 Montaigne Medal finalist. (and on Short List)
Printing Industry of Minnesota
2007 Certificate of Merit for Print Excellence in Books
Chicago Book Clinic The 57th Annual Book Clinic
Honorable Mention School Publishing PreK/Primary with 4/C Internals (Won by Scholastics)
The Newberry Library
"Especially in the last decade, we ve really built up substantial holdings in the history of geographic pedagogy, and our professional development programs for teachers have become a fixture, so MIM has found a very appropriate home."
- Robert W. Karrow, Jr. Curator of Special Collections and Curator of Maps
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