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As a child, nothing captures the imagination quite the way a map does. While it’s not something that appeals to every child, many are entranced by beauty and information offered by a quality map. Most kids find other outlets for their imagination as the years pass. For them a historical england map is just a reference graphic for homework. However, some people never outgrown their love of maps, becoming avid map collectors or even amateur or professional cartographers .
The true appeal of world maps to the child’s mind is hard to understand once it’s been outgrown. In this technological age, it’s even easier to forget how it feels to touch a map with anticipation and excitedly trace routes between cities or follow rivers and highways. The first time a child encounters a globe is also magical as the idea of actually holding the world in their hands can astound them.
Much of childhood imagination is tied into the senses. They need to touch, smell, hear and even taste things in order to understand them. This is why computer-aided learning, while exposing children to images and sounds they would not otherwise have been able to experience, still lack some of the inspiration that physical objects provide. The ability to hold a heavy atlas, to feel the slight breeze created by a spinning globe, to manually color or draw their own map — these are things that can leave a lasting impression on a child’s imagination.