Samuel de Champlain (Watts Library)

by Liz Sonneborn

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A color-illustrated biography of French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who discovered the Ottawa River, founded the city of Quebec, and worked to establish French colonies on his travels to North America in the early seventeenth century.

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Read this aloud with my 8yo. He retained much more of it than I did.

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Liz Sonneborn is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she has written more than eighty books for children and young adults. Her fields of specialty include American history, biography, and women's studies.

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Samuel de Champlain
Original language
English

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Nonfiction, Kids, Tween
DDC/MDS
971.01History & geographyHistory of North AmericaCanadaCanadaFrench regime 1497-1763
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F1030.1 .S69Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin AmericaCanadaGeneral
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