Krull,
Kathleen and Illustrated by Hewitt, Kathryn Lives of the Explorers:
Discoveries, Disasters (and What the Neighbors Thought) 96 pgs.
HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014. $20.99 Content: Language: G (0 swears);
Mature Content: G Violence: G. NON-FICTION
A
collection of 17 short biographies of a wide variety of explorers from Viking Leif Ericson
to Astronaut Sally Ride. The author skillfully includes some explorer’s that
are lesser known but amazing, as well as many female explorer’s. The
illustrations feature the explorer’s with bobble head like features. Includes
large maps that are easy to understand, as well as fun components from the explorer’s
lives.
This is
an incredibly well written book that is easy to understand, interesting, and fun to read. The
illustrations are fantastic! The biggest challenge is getting students to check
out these kinds of books. I have many of these of a variety, including a few by this author and
they have never been checked out. Also the biographies are a bit too short for
the classes that are doing research reports. I still really love this book,
working on a way to make it sing. Maybe doing an in-library mini biography unit.
ELEMENTARY -ADVISABLE Reviewer:
Stephanie Elementary School Librarian & Author
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