Books in the Going Places series

A series of geography books that explore the relationship between people and their environment. Each title begins with a child's local, familiar surroundings before moving on to the way people live in other parts of the world. Topics discussed include environmental change, population and planning.

This title uses the school as a starting point to get children thinking about how changes in the physical landscape affect them. It focuses on issues such as transport, farming and the supply of goods and services to investigate the reasons for the effect of natural and manmade change.