For the past seven years, author and artist Martha Day Zschock has Journeyed from coast to coast, teaching children of all ages about cities from Boston to San Francisco. Zschock began her best-selling series with a Journey to the area she knows best, Cape Cod. In all, over 200,000 copies of the series have sold nationwide. Now the Orleans resident turns her attention to another of the New England region's treasures, the great state of Maine. Like previous volumes in the series, this is much more than an alphabet book. Each page is headed by an alliterative sentence that evokes an important theme of life in Maine. Canoes carry campers upcountry . . . Islanders are independent individuals . . . Katahdin is king from Kittery to Ft. Kent . . . Lots of locals lobster for a living. On each page, a paragraph of informative text is finished off by a playful factoid curling along the bottom of the page. In developing her themes, Zschock brings in dozens of regional attractions, including museums, fairs, and festivals, many of which are subjects of her beautiful paintings. The format works well. -School Library Journal Zschock's paintings are full of detail and beautifully rendered. -Washington Parent
