Explore With Ponce De Leon (Travel With the Great Explorers) - Softcover

O'Brien, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0778714357 ISBN 13: 9780778714354

Publisher: Crabtree Pub Co, 2014

Synopsis

This informative book follows the travels of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Lon to the Caribbean and Florida. Historical information and high-interest fact boxes are presented in a tabloid-news style that guides readers through major voyages, explorations, and discoveries. Topics include Ponce de Lons trip to the New World on Columbus second voyage, being appointed a governor in the Caribbean, his actions toward the Taino people, life in the Spanish colonies, claiming Florida for Spain, and his legacy.

About this title

From School Library Journal

Gr 2-4-This flawed, poorly designed series introduces the earliest world explorers and their varied destinations. Their stories are told through sound bites of narrative and interspersed frantically with pullouts. Some pages are composed entirely of sidebars. These books may be designed for readers influenced by social media, but they neglect narrative entirely, and kids will struggle to find a central textual thread amid the blasts of information competing for their attention. The series does a disservice to the historical images by including tiny versions, clustered too closely together, and there's often a disconnect between text and images. The authors don't always let readers come to their own conclusions. For example, Ferdinand Magellan is labeled as "pig headed" without any explanatory anecdotes or examples. Give these titles a pass.α(c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crabtree Pub Co
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0778714357
• ISBN 13: 9780778714354
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32