[bksvol-discuss] How the States Got Their Shapes

Ah! I checked my "requesters" list and it was Shelley who requested How the 
States got their Shapes.

It's an interesting history--for grown-ups, not for children, though it sounds 
like it, doesn't it. It's 352 pages and was just published in May. It doesn't 
seem to be on the NY TIMes best-seller list which surprises me a little because 
of its popularity in my library.

Ive started to read it. There are numerous gray-and-white maps that probably 
won't scan and would be impossible to describe but they just illustrate the 
text rather than elaborate on it. Anyone with a puzzle map of the U.S. with 
cut-out states like the ones we had as children could feel the boundaries that 
are talked about in the first chapter.

This is a book which, even though I might have already read it by the time it 
gets submitted and by the time I finish what I'm working on I'd be willing to 
validate if no one else wanted to, but I'm sure there are history buffs who 
would be more-than-willing. I definitely recommend it

Cindy

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