I got my mum an atlas of fictional maps for her birthday last year (i think it was called the writers map) and I would 1000% recommend it! Also, I love the natural history of dragons book series for its world building and maps
@kailashepherd792
3 жыл бұрын
I was CONVINCED that The Hunger Games had a map! Actually a little bamboozled that it doesn't. I absolutely love a map in a book and will always buy a book if I already liked the look of it and find out there is a map.
@marelizeschmahl1891
26 күн бұрын
We had to read Koning van Katoren in High School as a prescribed booked in South Africa in the 1990's. I loved it. I speak Afrikaans and we read it in Dutch. Bit of a challenge but a fond memory.
@sarahbencic1050
3 жыл бұрын
As a real life cartographer ( who does commissions for real and fantastical maps) I support this message 💛
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
Yesss, that's so fun! Have you done any maps for books before, or is it mostly other projects?
@sarahbencic1050
3 жыл бұрын
I am working on one for a book at the moment! But this is my first book one. I’ve done a lot for people doing D&D and those sort of games. But I mostly get jobs for real world maps, and have a full on job for mapping software and web development, but I’ve also done some recently for television show that is getting pitched 💛 so hopefully if that show gets picked up I’ll make an animated version of that one.
@EpicReads
3 жыл бұрын
The maps are one of our favorite things!!!
@thegardenoftere
3 жыл бұрын
the intro of this video is so beautiful !!! i read the priory of the orange tree last summer and it's not as intimidating as everyone says, most of the pages are extra information or character names, and the world-building is easy to follow
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
That is excellent news! 🐉
@bettychoibooks
3 жыл бұрын
In the same way people have maps at the start, I think it should be more common to have family trees in the endpapers!
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
Definitely! Don't know what I'd done if my copy of Wuthering Heights didn't have the family tree haha. Would love to see more of those for sure (especially with beautiful decorations).
@KittyAndTheBooks
3 жыл бұрын
The Lord of the Rings maps will always be my favorite, as a kid I spend so much time staring at it.
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
I love how they incorporates them in the films too!
@heatherandclover
3 жыл бұрын
Winter's Promise is first in a quartet!! Final book was published in France a year or so ago and is going to be published in English in September! I super recommend the series, hope you get a chance to read it soon!
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
Ohh thanks for the info! So lovely to see translated fantasy do so well in the UK too.
@liesbethvv
2 жыл бұрын
What a lovely video! Also loved the Dutch books as I really want to reread them some time. I don’t often read books with maps but one I remember and kept going back to when reading is the one in Wicked!
@degroenemeisjes
2 жыл бұрын
Sanne, jouw video’s zijn echt NEXT LEVEL mooi. Waaaauw 🥰🥰🥰🥰
@booksandquills
2 жыл бұрын
Wat lief! Dankje ☺️
@kitreadsbooks7718
3 жыл бұрын
Opening a book and finding a map is always the best :D Also this was such a lovely introduction :) And so lovely to see all the Dutch books, reminded me of growing up in Germany and such interesting ideas explored in them too! Now watching to see if I can get any English language recommendations. I really hope you enjoy Priory of the Orange Tree, I thought it was fantastic, especially how it explored myths!
@JimBob4233
3 жыл бұрын
'Grenade' is French for 'pomegranate' and is where the English word for the small bomb comes from, so that could've been deliberate. Also, it's from the Latin for 'seed' - like 'grain' or 'granary' or 'granular' - and has nothing to do with the Spanish city Grenada.
@Valentina-Tinalina
3 жыл бұрын
In spanish is called granada which means grenade too!
@JimBob4233
3 жыл бұрын
@@Valentina-Tinalina Grenades are named after pomegranates, because they were about the same size and shape and filled with pellets of gunpowder.
@louiseballantine8771
3 жыл бұрын
Lovely video, I'm quite excited to not be alone in loving books with maps. I love the maps in the David Eddings Belgariad series, they are such sn integral part of the story xx
@niamhl6964
3 жыл бұрын
I really love seeing fantasy maps that clearly have huge amounts of thought put into them when it comes to things making geological sense. The map from Avatar the Last Airbender is a great example of a map that is so thoroughly thought out, all the mountains and forests and such are placed so well and the buildup of communities in certain areas is logically consistent, not to mention the impact of the war and how it makes sense how some cities survived whilst others didn't.
@ArnoldsIOS
3 жыл бұрын
As soon as I saw Alegaesia, it INSTANTLY brought me back to when I decided to spend my target money on a book (Eragon) instead of on pencils and pens… 😂
@MiraNemcik
3 жыл бұрын
such a great video idea and so perfectly executed! thanks for taking me down the memory lane, when i was 10 to 14 i would only read books with maps in them.. your recommendations make me want to get back to them again!
@loriannwhite8384
3 жыл бұрын
I believe book maps are essentially to a great hero’s journey. Great video.
@vicki250897
3 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah! Thank you for this video!
@manoeksbooknook
3 жыл бұрын
Niemand houdt mij tegen was one of my absolute favourite books growing up, I remember doing a book presentation about it at school. Think it started my love for dystopian books, even before I read the Hunger Games. Recently I thougt about rereading it but with all the flooding going on atm in the Netherlands I might have to pass 😬
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was just thinking about that map while watching the news, so scary!
@CuppaTeaAndASitDown
3 жыл бұрын
One of the reasons Garth Nix is one of my favourite authors, his books always have a good few maps! I know I’m gonna love a book if it’s got maps! My other faves are The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan. First time I had bit of confusion cos the more northerly countries are desert, which as. Northern Hemisphere person threw me briefly cos the author is Australian! One thought, it’s no good reading an ebook that’s got a map, cos I need to be able to flick back and forth easily!
@RockismyAir
3 жыл бұрын
Wow. You are super beautiful and your words as well.
@AbiofPellinor
3 жыл бұрын
Honestly so accurate 😍😍 love a good map
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
Can't beat it!
@letyourlovegrowtall
3 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful!
@autism_and_niamh
3 жыл бұрын
I LOVE me a book map! 😍This was a beautiful ode to them ✨I just adore designing my own as well, so I'll definitely check out WorldAnvil (what a cool spon)!
@bettyreads222
3 жыл бұрын
what a beautiful intro, great video sanne!
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! ❤️
@LewisOsborne
3 жыл бұрын
Great list! Did you read ‘The Edge Chronicles’ as a child? I was obsessed with the maps from that series.
@kitreadsbooks7718
3 жыл бұрын
The maps and illustrations in those books were incredible.
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of them! Will go take a look. 👀
@siddharthjain5050
3 жыл бұрын
Nice
@AbdulQadir-zt3he
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome vedio
@johnsaxongitno4life588
3 жыл бұрын
Love this video and your amazing channel love your number one Australia fan John xx
@Larissa_KD
3 жыл бұрын
Yesss I love this video!
@mariasilveriagrassi
3 жыл бұрын
Raybearer is beautiful.and underhyped. Please read it!
@finnfisu
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Drawing a map to my book atm as well. Kinderen van moeder aarde sounds interesting. Do you know is it translated in english or german?
@levanaeckert494
3 жыл бұрын
Robin Hobb is missing here, her books her fantastic and I am still looking for a beautifully drawn map of her world to put on my walls.
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve never read any! Which would you recommend I start with? 👀
@levanaeckert494
2 жыл бұрын
@@booksandquills I started with the Farseer trilogy, it takes its time at first but the writing is flawless. Once you're addicted, you can jump to The Liveships Traders and you'll have a whole universe to fall into. The Rain Wild was also very entertaining, because well, dragons!! It's all a part of the same universe, but you can read them in whichever order you like :)
@chenkeith7272
3 жыл бұрын
When reading fantasy, is it really important to refer to the maps because I read more ebooks and they don’t render too well on a ereader? Would you be able to follow the story without the maps?
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
Usually you’re fine without in my experience when it comes to following the plot, but it adds a lot of atmosphere. If the book is famous enough you can look up the map in high res online sometimes!
@andreac4757
3 жыл бұрын
No Narniaaaaaa!?
@booksandquills
3 жыл бұрын
I read them as kid, but don’t have any copies or any particular memories of them. 👀 Was surprised it wasn’t mentioned more on the Insta poll!
@rachaelerin1
2 жыл бұрын
I literally scrolled all the way through the comments to see if ANYONE mentioned Narnia!! I’m shocked.
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