While Mr. Hillyer was preparing this book to succeed his enormously popular "Child's History of the World," he "tried it out" on several classes of boys and girls at the Calvert School. Cone of his young pupils came up at the end of the course and said to him, "I wish there were a hundred more countries in the world that you could tell us about!"

That is the feeling one has after reading A Child's Geography Of The World. Mr. Hillyer, who has visited and traveled in most of the countries on the globe, brings to these pages the ever-changing fascination of the world's lands and peoples. He shows the child reader what is beyond the horizon "from Kalamazoo to Timbuktu." He shows him not only the Seven Wonders but the seventy times Seven Wonders of the World. He lays a foundation of interest and knowledge that will make the child eager to travel, and able to travel with some inkling of what there is to see in the world, when he grows up.

From the dust jacket of the 1935 edition