A world tour using children's literature, fiction and non-fiction. Some are picture books with more substantial text than those in my Picturing the Earth list, others are chapter books. Books marked ** have more mature subject matter.

World / Exploration

• The Book of Discovery (M.B.Synge) - history of world exploration
• Complete Book of Marvels (Richard Halliburton)
  
• Seabird (Holling C. Holling)
• Round Buildings, Square Buildings, and Buildings that Wiggle Like a Fish (Philip Isaacson)
  

Africa

• My Sahara Adventure: 52 Days by Camel (Lawrie Raskin)
• Hippos in the Night: Autobiographical Adventures in Africa (Christina Allen)
• Africatrek: a Journey by Bicycle (Dan Buettner)
• ** The Heaven Shop (Deborah Ellis) - effect of AIDS, Malawi
• Journey to Jo'burg (Beverley Naidoo) - South Africa
• Jock of the Bushveldt (Sir J. Percy Fitzpatrick) - South Africa
• Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope (Beverley Naidoo) - South Africa
• No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa (ed. Tim McKee)
  

North America

• The Mitchells: Five for Victory (Hilda van Stockum) - Canada
• Canadian Summer (Hilda van Stockum) - Canada
• Friendly Gables (Hilda van Stockum) - Canada
• Anne of Green Gables and sequels (L.M.Montgomery) - Canada
  
• Minn of the Mississippi (Holling C. Holling) - United States
  
• Paddle to the Sea (Holling C. Holling) - United States
• Tree on the Trail (Holling C. Holling) - United States
• Water Sky (Jean Craighead George) - Alaska, USA
  

South America 

• Chucaro, Wild Pony of the Pampa (Francis Kalnay) - Argentina
• ** The Disappeared (Gloria Whelan) - Argentina
  
• Secret of the Andes (Ann Nolan Clark) - Peru
  

Central America

• Maya Quest: Interactive Expedition (Dan Buettner) - bicycle trek through Central America
• The Cay (Theodore Taylor) - Caribbean
  
• Where the Flame Trees Bloom (Alma Flor Ada) - Cuba
• ** My Heart Lies South: the Story of My Mexican Marriage (Elizabeth Borton de Trevino)
  

Asia

• ** The Breadwinner (Deborah Ellis) - Afghanistan
• ** Parvana's Journey (Deborah Ellis) - sequel to The Breadwinner
• ** Mud City (Deborah Ellis) - third book of trilogy. Afghanistan / Pakistan
• A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night (Song Nan Zhang)
• Children of China: an Artist's Journey (Song nan Zhang)
• Young Fu of the Upper Yangtse (Elizabeth Foreman Lewis) - China
  
• ** Chu Ju's House (Gloria Whelan) - China
  
• ** Spilled Water (Sally Grindley) - 11yo girl sold into domestic service, China
  
• Premlata and the Festival of Lights (Rumer Godden) - India
• ** Homeless Bird (Gloria Whelan) - India
  
• Miss Happiness and Miss Flower (Rumer Godden) - Japan, for younger children
• Great-Grandfather's House (Rumer Godden) - Japan
  
• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Eleanor Coerr) - Japan
• Tales of a Korean Grandmother (Frances Carpenter)
  
• Daughter of the Mountains (Louise Rankin) - Tibet / India
  
• Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam (Quang Nhuong Huynh)
  
• The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam (Quang Nhuong Huynh)
• ** Goodbye, Vietnam (Gloria Whelan)
  

Middle East

• ** Parade of Shadows (Gloria Whelan)
  
• ** One More River (Lynne Reid Banks) - Israel
  
• ** Broken Bridge (Lynne Reid Banks) - Israel
• Ali and the Golden Eagle (Wayne Grover) - Saudi Arabia
  

Europe

• The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Peter Sis) - Czech Republic
• Philomena (Kate Seredy) - Czech Republic
• The Family Under the Bridge (Natalie Savage Carlson) - France
• A Long Way from Welcome (Echo Lewis) - France
  
• Emil and the Detectives (Erich Kastner) - Germany
  
• The Three Twins (Erich Kastner) - Germany
  
• Lotte and Lisa (Erich Kastner) - Germany
  
• My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell) - Greece
• Cottage at Bantry Bay (Hilda van Stockum) - Ireland
• Pegeen (Hilda Van Stockum) - Ireland
• Francie on the Run (Hilda Van Stockum) - Ireland
  
• Vendela in Venice (Christina Bjork) - Italy
• The Wheel on the School (Meindert de Jong) - Netherlands
• Sovietrek: a Journey by Bicycle Across Russia (Dan Buettner)
  
• The Children of Noisy Village (Astrid Lindgren) - Sweden
• Happy Times in Noisy Village (Astrid Lindgren) - Sweden
  
• Heidi (Johanna Spyri) - Switzerland
  

Australasia

• Red Sand, Blue Sky (Cathy Applegate) - Australia
  
• The Drover's Road Collection: Three New Zealand Adventures (Joyce West)
• The Weka-Feather Cloak: a New Zealand Fantasy (Leo Madigan)
• Jungle Islands: My South Sea Adventure (Maria Coffey)
  

Arctic / Antarctica