The Little Mapmaker

Maya is five, and she draws maps. Maps of her bedroom. Maps of the kitchen. Maps of the backyard with the tire swing. Her dog Pepper sits beside her with a red bandana while she works. Then one day Maya draws a castle deep in the tall grass, and when she walks out to find it, it is exactly where she put it. Soon a river runs through a crack in the sidewalk because she sketched fish in it. A picture book about how imagination, attention, and a pencil are enough to make a world.