by Brandt Ensor
As you know by now, through the many posts, articles, and announcements on the library website and this email blast, our reading family here in Adams County is currently reading The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd, the title selected as our Adams County Reads One Book 2024.
While fall doesn’t officially start until September 22nd, I always felt like fall started after school started and after the reading of the Adams County Reads One Book title is in high gear. Here we are, just a few days into fall. Since Adams County Reads One Book is always held as our first major countywide adult event of the fall season, I thought it would be fun to dip into the topic of maps. I wouldn’t be giving away the plot of the book by telling you the book has maps in it. A Cartographer is a person who studies and practices the making and using of maps. How we use maps may have changed a lot in the last 250 years, but the interesting story of maps is front and center in this book.
Since I can’t give away the plot of the story in the article, I thought since we know the book is about maps and mapmaking and using, I would take a deep dive into the library public catalog and find some other resources the library owns that go into cartography that might be of interest to you as you are reading and enjoying The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd.
You can also click on the link to the following items to see them in our catalog:
Adult Materials:
Mophead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings (Adult Nonfiction)
Adventures in Maps by Debbie Hall (Adult Nonfiction)
America: The Atlas by Smithsonian (Adult Nonfiction)
A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton (Adult Nonfiction)
Mapmaker (Adult DVD)
Children’s Materials:
Footsteps on the Map by Barbara Kerley (Juvenile Nonfiction)
Maps and Mapmaking by Deborah Chancellor (Juvenile Nonfiction)
The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World by Dean Robbins (Juvenile Nonfiction
Beginner’s United States Atlas by the National Geographic Society (Juvenile Nonfiction)
Marvelous Maps: The World as You Have Never Seen it Before by Simon Kuestenmacher (Juvenile Nonfiction)
Brandt A. Ensor is Assistant Executive Director of the Adams County Library System.