Christopher Columbus
by Ann McGovern
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Columbus lived so long ago. How do we know what he was really like? How do we know what really happened 500 years ago? There are some things about Columbus we will never know. There are some things we know for sure.Tags
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Columbus's early sea adventures, his life in Lisbon, his successes and disappointments are written with verve and zest and make this historical figure really live. A new epilogue explores the recent controversy about Columbus.
I really enjoyed this book. I think that many students will stray from it though because of its "antique" look. Christopher Columbus is a major topic in all schools. Learning about him was probably my earliest memory in school, other than just playing around. Christopher Columbus' name is mentioned a thousand times within a persons lifetime and that is why we have to make sure that students are familiar with him. I would do this book as a read aloud and have a history lesson with it. I would teach the history of the discovery of America and teach them the rhyme "Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492."
This is a good book to introduce Christopher Columbus. It talks about his life in Lisbon and his journal enteries about his early sea adventures.
This book would be good for a history lesson around Columbus day. This book talks about different voyages that Christopher Columbus took and what occured on his explorations.
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Ann McGovern was born in New York City on May 25, 1930. She attended the University of New Mexico. At the age of 22, she worked at Little Golden Books, and wrote several books for the company, most of them based on popular children's cartoons and programs. After leaving Little Golden Books, she worked as a freelance writer before taking a position show more with Random House in the editorial department. During her time there, she wrote Why It's a Holiday in 1960. She then worked as an editor at Scholastic for 13 years before becoming a full time author. She wrote 55 books during her lifetime including the If You... series, Stone Soup, The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving, Little Wolf, Shark Lady: True Adventures of Eugenie Clark, The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson, Runaway Slave: The Story of Harriet Tubman, and Zoo, Where Are You?. She died on August 8, 2015 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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