Abstract
Abstract Classroom teachers and school librarians can utilize realistic picture story books as well as folk and tall tales to convey geographic concepts and thereby improve student's geographic literacy. Both the text and the illustrations of stories set in a specific locality reveal interrelationships between the people and the environment, such as the type of climate, crops grown, foods eaten, kinds of dwellings, clothing worn, methods of transportation, occupations, flora and fauna, recreational activities, etc. Picture book stories can also strengthen geographic themes or concepts of place, location, movement, and regions. This article contains a representative listing of fictional children's literature titles which relate to these geographic concepts. It also suggests specific classroom and media center activities appropriate for young children and strategies for teachers to integrate geography with the curriculum areas of math, language arts, movement and dance, art, and science.
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