Please see the below message regarding corrections to this summer's children's manual from Adrienne Butler, CSLP Children's Manual Chair.


Michelle Willis
Co-Chair, NJ Summer Reading Committee
Scotch Plains Public Library
1927 Bartle Avenue
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
908-322-5007 ext.209


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Please forward to your libraries.



An out-of-date map was used for the continent of Africa, and several
countries either changed their name or are misspelled. Youth Services
Librarian David Cubie (OH) found the following errors on the map of Africa
in Chapter 6:



1. The assignment is to write the names of seven countries listed at

the top and attach them to the countries w/o names (they are shaded)

---Tunisia, although not shaded does not have the name of the country

written on or near it-this could cause confusion for some children.



2. I found two countries misspelled: The country Mauritania is
spelled

on the CSLP map "Maurinania" & the country Lesotho is misspelled

"Lethoso".





3. Two countries are actually completely wrong in name: the
territory

Rio Muni is no longer the name of a country-in 1968 it became a

territory of Equatorial Guinea, or more accurately Republic of

Equatorial Guinea. The third largest country in Africa is no longer

Zaire, it is actually called Democratic Republic of the Congo, and has been
called that since 1997.





4. In the instructions at the top of the page it says there are 53

countries in Africa, when there are actually 54. There are 53 members

of the AU (African Union), with Morocco being the one country abstaining.





5. The coastline of Gabon is missing, altering the coastline of the

entire continent.





Adrienne Butler, Children's Manual Chair




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