My First Geography Book: The World Tour of Stuffed Toys around Their Apartment

By Igor Okunev

A boy and his stuffed animals start a journey around their apartment. They find out that the apartment is a kingdom that has mountains, rivers, and cities, that everything in it has its purpose, and that the most important place in it is near the parent bedroom. They will also learn what a real geographer needs to leave the house, and finally, after looking into the laws of geography, our characters will venture to explore the world around them. Do you have any maps, atlases, or geography books? Have you already travelled, and how did you prepare for those trips? Did you take your stuffed friends with you? Let's study geography together! Use #myfirstgeographybook to share your stuffed toys geographic explorations with other book readers.

"An inventive, mild adventure for young storytellers and monarchs." - Kirkus Reviews

"Illuminating and often delightful, this picture book invites young readers to appreciate the world through the lens of Geography." - BookLife Review

• Language: English
• Publisher: Igor Okunev
• Release date: Nov 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781662902826

Igor Okunev

Igor Okunev has master's degree in history from the University of Manchester and doctoral degree in political science from MGIMO University. He is a Professorial Research Fellow at MGIMO University and Director of its Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations. He is a Co-Chair of Research Committee on Geopolitics at the International Political Science Association. His work focuses on political geography, critical geopolitics, federalism and capital cities.

Book preview

Chapter One

in which my stuffed toys

decide to become geographers

Do you have stuffed toys? I have so many of them: some of them are old and shabby, others are completely new; some are big, almost as tall as I am, and some are tiny, smaller than my hand; some are clever, and some are rather clueless; but all of them are the kindest in the world, and they love me very much - and I love them back, of course. So, get your own toys out, seat them in a row in front of you, and we’ll tell them a story of what happened in my apartment. Are you ready? So here’s how it goes.

A few days ago some sort of a commotion woke me up. I opened my eyes and could see my toys who’d gathered on my desk and were now discussing something, pointing and arguing, almost ready to start fighting. I sneaked up on them and could see that they were studying my favourite book. It’s full of maps of far away lands and countries, and