My Place, a children's book

My daughter brought an amazing book home form the library yesterday. It's called My Place, and it's a reverse chronological look at one "location" over the span of 200 years. Each story is set a decade apart, and is told from the perspective of a different 9ish year old child living on that spot. Each story contains a map of the area, showing the evolution and transformation that has been underway, drawn as if by a child. It's a great example of the ways that personal relationships to location and place are a constant in this fluctuating environment, where one's Place is so easily replaced with another's.

Here are a few shots from the book.

interested in this book, here is the amazon link

Comments

[Tracy Rolling]

This reminds me of a book I had years ago, when I was teaching home school, called "Starting from a Walk," or something like that. The idea of the book was to take the kids out once a week and map the same walk every week anew, making different kinds of annotations. It covered a whole 4th-grade science year. You would make a botonaical map, a weather map, a scale map, etc. I still have it somewhere, but I can't find it online.

[Mrs Lead]

hi, I think that my place is a great book, for my year eight extension english class we are studying this book and they are coming up with some great ideas . I have given them an assignment that they have to write the next chapter of it.

[Jason]

oh Mrs Lead, such a good assignment, writing the next chapter. You think they'll want to write about 'the new now' or 'the future'?