100+ Books with Maps

The following books and series for children and young adults contain at least one map illustration.

Fiction

• Abhorsen series by Garth Nix
  
• The Adventures with the Parkers series by Mike Graf
  
• The Arthur Trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland
  
• Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
  
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
  
• The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
  
• The Bomb by Theodore Taylor
  
• Breadwinner Trilogy by Deborah Ellis
  
• Dora the Explorer series
  
• A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
  
• Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse
  
• The Calder Game (Brett Helquist) by Blue Balliett
  
• Chasing Vermeer (Brett Helquist) by Blue Balliett
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi 
• Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
  
• The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
  
• The City of Ember series by Jeanne DuPrau
  
• The Clockwork Century by Cherie Priest
  
• The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
  
• Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
  
• The Death of Yorik Mortwell by Stephen Messer
  
• Dragon Keeper by Carole Wilkinson
  
• Earthsea series by Ursula LeGuin
  
• Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
  
• Endangered and Threatened by Eliot Schrefer
  
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy series (Stephen Gilpin, Ill.) by William Boniface
  
• The Expeditioners series by S.S. Taylor
  
• The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Gabriel Finley and the Raven’s Riddle by George Hagen
• The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable by Dan Gutman
• Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper
  
• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
  
• Graceling Realm by Kristin Cashore
• The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
• Henry's Map by David Elliot
  
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
• The Imaginary Veterinary series by Suzanne Selfors
  
• Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
  
• Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke
  
• Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
  
• Jason’s Gold by Will Hobbs
  
• Land of Elyon series by Patrick Carman
  
• Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin
  
• Legend by Marie Lu 
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
  
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis  
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien  
• The Lucky Uglies by Paul Durham
  
• The Mapmakers Trilogy by S.E. Grove
• The Map to Everywhere by Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis
  
• The Maze by Will Hobbs
• Mr. Tucket series by Gary Paulsen
  
• My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
  
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
  
• The Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins (Marion Lindsay, Illustrator) by Holly Webb
  
• The National Park Mystery series by Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson
• NERDS by Michael Buckley
  
• Never Say Die by Will Hobbs
  
• Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr
  
• Once on this Island by Gloria Whelan
  
• Petticoat Party series by Kathleen Karr
  
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  
• Rebels of the Kasbah by Joe O’Neill
  
• Redwall series by Brian Jacques
  
• The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien 
• Sacajawea by Joseph Bruchac
  
• Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo  
• Sea of Trolls series by Nancy Farmer
• The Seekers by Erin Hunter
  
• Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind and Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples
  
• Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen
  
• The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
  
• Stowaway by Karen Hesse
  
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
  
• A Tale from Alcatraz series by Gennifer Choldenko
• The Map Trap by Andrew Clements
  
• Three Kingdoms series by Wei Dong Chen and Xiao Long Liang
  
• Three Times Lucky and The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage
  
• Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made by Stephan Pastis
  
• Travels with Gannon & Wyatt series by Patti Wheeler and Keith Hemstreet
  
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
• Tricker’s Choice by Tamora Pierce
• The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien 
• Warriors by Erin Hunter
  
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  
• Wild Man Island by Will Hobbs
  
• Wildwood Chronicles by Colin Meloy
  
• The Wind in the Willows (Ernest Shepard) by Kenneth Grahame
  
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (archive.org Tik Tok of Oz)
  
• Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
  
• The Wright 3 (Brett Helquist) by Blue Balliett
• The Young Elites by Marie Lu

Nonfiction

There are thousands of works of nonfiction for youth that contain maps. Below are a few recent examples:

• A Long Walk to Water: based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
• The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats: A Scientific Mystery by Sandra Markle
• Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
• In the New World by Gerda Raidt
• U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America by George R. Stewart
• Plastic Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Patricia Newman
• Passenger on the Pearl by Winifred Conkling
• The Polar Bear Scientists by Peter Lourie
• The Skull in the Rock by Lee R. Berger and Marc Aronson
  
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Books and Websites About Maps

For Kids

Charting the World by Richard Panchyk 

Children's Illustrated Atlas by Smithsonian 

Follow that Map by Scot Ritchie 

Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island by Jennifer Thermes 

Maps by Akesandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski 

Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney 

The Road to There by Val Ross 

World Atlas by National Geographic for Kids 

For Adults

Atlas of Imaginary Places by Mia Cassany

Cinemap: An Atlas of Great Movies by Andrew DeGrafff       

Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel

Fantasy Mapmaker by Jared Blando 

Great Maps by Jerry Brotton 

How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monomonier

Literary Landscapes: Charting the Worlds of Classic Literature   

Literary Wonderlands: A Journey through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created 

Mapmaking with Children by David Sobel 

Mapping it Out Maps: Finding Our Place in the World 

Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi 

Once Upon a Time Map Book by B.G. Hennessy 

Pictorial Maps by Nigel Holmes 

Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew DeGraff  

The Phanton Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching 

You Are Here by Katherine Harmon 

Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands 

Plotted

Children’s Literature Maps

Fantasy Books with Maps

Literary Maps. Available: https://www.fulltable.com/vts/m/map/lit.htm

Maps Are Cool

Maps from Book World

Muehrcke, Phillip & Muehrcke, Juliana O. (July 1974). Maps in literature. The Geographical Review, 64(3), 317-338.

Patton, Jeffrey C. & Ryckman, Nancy B. (Summer 1990). Maps in children's literature. Cartographic Perspectives, 6, 3-11.

Ranson, Clare (1995). Cartography in Children’s Literature. In, Sustaining the Vision. Selected Papers of the Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship. (24th, Worcester, England, July 17-21, 1995).

Wood, Denis & Fels, John (1992). The Power of Maps. Guilford Press.