Welcome!

Enrich Your Travels with Longitude

We've got the classic, new and hard-to-find books and maps to help you get the most out of your adventures.

SIGN UP FOR

Longitude News

Get our monthly e-mail update

GET A

Catalog

In the Kitchen

Gran Cocina Latina, The Food of Latin America

Maricel E. Presilla

SEE ALL >

Antarctica

Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

SEE ALL >

Our Favorites

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

SEE ALL >

Tuscany

Every Day in Tuscany, Seasons of an Italian Life

Frances Mayes

SEE ALL >

TUSCANY

For Kids

Kids Italian Picture Dictionary

Kids Italian Picture Dictionary


by Inc. Berlitz International

  • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 128 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

1,000 words central to a child's everyday life -- animals, flowers, people, colors, numbers and activities -- teach even the youngest readers Italian. Each word is illustrated and accompanied by a phonetic transcription and phrase. (ITL449, $12.95)

Leonardo da Vinci


by Diane Stanley

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 48 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

A stunning pictorial biography for younger readers. (ITL694, $6.99)

T is for Toscana


by Gary Kelley

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • HARD COVER
  • 40 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

This beautifully illustrated alphabet book, with full-color, full-page drawings, evokes the places, history and allure of Tuscany. (ITL931, $17.95)

On Etruscan Time


by Tracy Barrett

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 172 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

While spending the summer on an archaeological dig near Florence, Italy, with his mother, eleven-year-old Hector meets an Etruscan boy who needs help to foil his treacherous uncle's plan to make him a human sacrifice--1,000 years in the past. (ITA361, $17.95)

The Diary of Melanie Martin: Or How I Survived Matt the Brat, Michelangelo, and the Leaning Tower of Pizza

The Diary of Melanie Martin: Or How I Survived Matt the Brat, Michelangelo, and the Leaning Tower of Pizza


by Carol Weston

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 144 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Ten-year-old Melanie tells all about her family's summer trip to Italy, writing it all down in her dear diary. A hit on the middle-school market, it packs in a lot of cultural information while being very of-the-moment. Ages 8-10. (ITL438, $5.99)

Juliet


by Anne Fortier

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 461 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

Fortier weaves a modern quest with much about 14th-century Siena in this page-turning historical romance, a hit with teens. (ITA283, $15.00)

Learn Italian Together


by Living Language

  • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
  • 2006
  • BOXED
  • FAMILY

These multimedia boxed sets feature CDs, games, stickers and adorable illustrations to help kids and parents pick up a new language together. (ITL761, $22.95)

 

Longitude provides recommended reading for travelers in partnership with the leading tour operators and travel programs for hundreds of destinations worldwide. We've got the classic, new and hard-to-find books and maps to help you get the most out of your adventures.