About this title: Biographies of ten European explorers who journeyed between the years of 1421-1522. Pencil drawings accompany the text which includes profiles of such adventurers as Christopher Columbus, Henry the Navigator, and Amerigo Vespucci.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780590489102ISBN:0590489100
Description: Anthony Bacon Venti. Fair. 128 pp. Cover shelf worn, all corners creased, prior owner's name on sticker, and inside front cover with other writing. The text is very good. read more
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"Why do we love Jean Fritz? Because she highlights all the wonderful and weird facts from our past in her writing. Because she is an accurate judge of character. Because she packages all her wonderful knowledge into fascinating history book for children. Because she knows about all the explorers who were making trips before Prince Henry the Navigator and still helps me clearly see why he is still so important. Obviously. My coworker gave me a box of books this year that included this collection of short biographies about the first major European explorers. Of all the stories my favorite was the story of Vasco Nunez de Balboa. To be honest I've always told students that he is a not so great farmer who ended up finding the Pacific Ocean as he ran away from debt (by hiding in a barrel). Really there is so much more to his story. He was a good diplomat and excellent explorer who was able to befriend many Natives who aided his trip to the Pacific. I also had no idea that he was captured by Pizarro, shipped back to Spain and beheaded for treason. Ah history is braving."
"I'm pre-reading several books about explorers and this was the first one. Each of 10 explorers gets a few pages with some cartoonish pictures. This book moved quickly and you could easily read one section per day. That is, if you want to read the book in the first place.
I felt that the author was a tad disrespectful at times. Some of the men were treated as idiots or monsters. Now, I'm sure some of them were not the best of men and I'm sure they did bad things. But those can be stated matter-of-factly and the child can make up their own minds. When certain words or phrases or 'tone of voice' are used it can prejudice the child's thinking ability.
I most likely won't use this book. I'll let you know which book we do use though."
"This book drew me in quickly, as I'm developing a big interest in world history the older I get. I started reading it to a son who had to do a book report on a character in it...then I couldn't put it down. I found it a well written children's history, but you expect no less from Jean Fritz. However it seemed a little forced sometimes. She seemed to be trying too hard to make it interesting for chilren, as when she included the names of the dogs of a couple of explorers, but it took me a minute to realize in one instance that she was really talking about a DOG! I think too, it would have been useful to have a glossary to refer to, and maybe a list of the various characters and their main contributions, since I was frequently getting lost with who was who. Very fascinating, though."
"Wow! I always learn a lot about history when I read with my kids, but this was a real eye-opener. Each chapter is about one of the 'great' explorers. The writing is fun and easy to read aloud, and there are some fun pictures that add to the experience. This has been a great book for discussing bias and knowing your author! Fritz is very frank about some of the really awful things our venerated Christopher Columbus and his contemporaries did, while recognizing their contributions to history. Quite different from my history education and very different from Story of the World!"
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