This is a wide-ranging and original exploration of a fascinating and neglected area of children’s literature studies. Its juxtaposition of cognitive theory, cartography, and cultural, political and literary thinking takes us from fact to fiction, from Middle-earth to Milan, from the Enlightenment to contemporary fantasy, from novels to picturebooks. The connections between childhood and children’s books, the mind and the map, and different cultural views of the world demonstrate the value of cross-disciplinary and international collaboration in the rapidly-developing field of cognition and literature.

- Peter Hunt, Cardiff University, UK,

[T]he volume no doubt achieves its goal of ‘offer[ing] the reader a broad range of new approaches to and new perspectives into the study of maps and mapping in children’s literature.

- Josh Simpson, University of Strathclyde, in International Research in Children's Literature, 2020,

This promises to be a stimulating and energetic collection of essays on maps in children’s books. It ranges widely in its international subject matter and theoretical approaches, bringing the tools of ecocriticism, cognitive development, political history and more to bear on picturebooks and novels for children and teenagers. A valuable contribution to the field.

- Deirdre F. Baker, University of Toronto,