diff --git a/lib/internal/streams/operators.js b/lib/internal/streams/operators.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..de5c9185165735
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/internal/streams/operators.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const { AbortError } = require('internal/errors');
+const compose = require('internal/streams/compose');
+
+module.exports.map = function map(stream, fn) {
+  return compose(stream, async function* (source, { signal }) {
+    for await (const item of source) {
+      if (signal.aborted) {
+        throw new AbortError('The iteration has been interrupted');
+      }
+      yield await fn(item, { signal });
+    }
+  });
+};
diff --git a/lib/stream.js b/lib/stream.js
index cc56b76e31a4a6..05c7ec80ddeff1 100644
--- a/lib/stream.js
+++ b/lib/stream.js
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ const {
   promisify: { custom: customPromisify },
 } = require('internal/util');
 
+const { map } = require('internal/streams/operators');
 const compose = require('internal/streams/compose');
 const { pipeline } = require('internal/streams/pipeline');
 const { destroyer } = require('internal/streams/destroy');
@@ -40,6 +41,9 @@ const promises = require('stream/promises');
 const Stream = module.exports = require('internal/streams/legacy').Stream;
 Stream.isDisturbed = require('internal/streams/utils').isDisturbed;
 Stream.Readable = require('internal/streams/readable');
+Stream.Readable.prototype.map = function(fn) {
+  return map(this, fn);
+};
 Stream.Writable = require('internal/streams/writable');
 Stream.Duplex = require('internal/streams/duplex');
 Stream.Transform = require('internal/streams/transform');
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-stream-map.js b/test/parallel/test-stream-map.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..6732d5c59fc9b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-stream-map.js
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const common = require('../common');
+const {
+  Readable,
+} = require('stream');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const { setTimeout } = require('timers/promises');
+
+{
+  // Map works on synchronous streams with a synchronous mapper
+  const stream = Readable.from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).map((x) => x + x);
+  const result = [2, 4, 6, 8, 10];
+  (async () => {
+    for await (const item of stream) {
+      assert.strictEqual(item, result.shift());
+    }
+  })().then(common.mustCall());
+}
+
+{
+  // Map works on synchronous streams with an asynchronous mapper
+  const stream = Readable.from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).map(async (x) => {
+    await Promise.resolve();
+    return x + x;
+  });
+  const result = [2, 4, 6, 8, 10];
+  (async () => {
+    for await (const item of stream) {
+      assert.strictEqual(item, result.shift());
+    }
+  })().then(common.mustCall());
+}
+
+{
+  // Map works on asynchronous streams with a asynchronous mapper
+  const stream = Readable.from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).map(async (x) => {
+    return x + x;
+  }).map((x) => x * x);
+  const result = [4, 8, 12, 16, 20];
+  (async () => {
+    for await (const item of stream) {
+      assert.strictEqual(item, result.shift());
+    }
+  })().then(common.mustCall());
+}
+
+{
+  // Allow cancellation of iteration through an AbortSignal
+
+  const stream = Readable.from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).map(async (x, { signal }) => {
+    return setTimeout(1e15, { signal });
+  });
+  (async () => {
+    const iterator = stream[Symbol.asyncIterator]();
+    iterator.next();
+    iterator.return();
+  })().catch(common.mustCall((err) => {
+    assert.equals(err.name, 'AbortError');
+  }));
+}