Books with title Great Explorers

Combining a time line of significant events with maps of the routes taken by explorers and pioneers, this educational resource navigates the exciting journeys of some of the best-known voyagers and offers amazing facts along the way. This guide includes details on the exciting discoveries made by Britain’s most famous scientific navigator, Captain Cook, and charts his voyage across the South Seas. The travels of Sir Francis Drake, England’s most celebrated seafaring hero, are also documented in this adventurer’s guide along with Magellan, Columbus, and the explorers to first settle in Africa. A fun-facts page brings out interesting tidbits and keeps the voyage alive as the routes are traced.

From Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, Explorers is a new picture book about an extraordinary trip to a museum.When a family goes to a local museum, a boy notices a homeless man sitting outside, making brightly colored origami birds. He convinces his dad to buy a bird the man makes just for him.Once inside the museum, his little sister takes the bird and launches it into the air. Is it lost? Soon another boy helps him look, and the paper bird brings two families—and two new friends—together.With the style he used in Wolf in the Snow, Matthew Cordell shows how an ordinary family outing can be both extraordinary and magical.