Review of the Day: The Last Mapmaker by Christine Soontornvat

The Last Mapmaker
By Christina Soontornvat
Candlewick Press
$17.99
ISBN: 9781536204957
Ages 9-12
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I am often grateful that people have come up with terms and phrases that so perfectly describe literary tropes and ideas that would otherwise be difficult to define. Take the term “world building”. I don’t have a dictionary in front of me right now, but if I were to hazard a guess as to what it means, I’d probably say it was the way in which an author fully immerses their reader in worl...