Explorers

This is a beautiful and interesting book with compelling illustrations, photos and information. Perfect for children who are curious about history, culture, or world exploration, Explorers is like a picture book and a biography got together and had a baby. Each explorer gets his/her own section and I love how this book is organized.
I highly recommend this book for classroom or personal use.

This is a beautiful book with great illustrations!
Short Biographies of Explorers I was familiar with like Christopher Columbus and Jaques Cousteau, as well as many I did not know about.

The maps and biographies are great for elementary kids. My son was fascinated!

This is one book that I am likely to buy in hard copy. I received an advance <digital> copy from NetGalley and chose to review it here. All thoughts are my own.

This book is brightly colored and features explorers spanning centuries and nations. I love that it addresses the "dark side" of exploration as well, in a manner appropriate for elementary school students. The book remains visually interesting throughout, and full of interesting histories. A wonderful, rich, diverse book.

A good introduction to a variety of explorers - on land, sea, air and space. Crosses different countries of origin and time periods. A nice book to have a look at with kids or if deciding what explorer to do for a project. Brief introductions and some other information as well.

DK knows how to pique the interest of young readers. All their books have been well received by educators, parents and children alike with their beautiful illustrations, photos, and excerpts. This one is no exception. It is visually stunning and the information is presented in bite-size format.

Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventurers encompasses a wide variety of explorations. Aside from well-known achievements in exploration and famous explorers, it also delves into areas of sea, ice, cave, animal, treasure and scientific/natural world explorations worldwide. Adventures of passion, travel, documents, diaries, goods, and tools are examined. From the Ancient Greeks to Darwin to Zheng He, not a stone or idea stays unturned.

This book serves well as an introductory overview of all kinds of explorations. The information is presented on the two-page format as in many other DK books, and with every page turn, something new or a subgenre is presented. With the beautiful illustrations and the friendly fonts, it is engaging and captivating to the eye.

A beautiful book to read with younger kids or early readers to encourage and inspire. Definitely a great book to have on hand and share :)

I received a digital copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
All opinions are my own. Thank you :)

Great! A very detailed book about alot of people achieving what others thought was impossible. I was impressed by the number of explorers they have in here and from all regions and time periods. Nicely illustrated with little snippets of their life and accomplishments and even some fun facts. Nice glossary of words for children who may not understand but are explained well and a good index. Overall I highly recommend this book for the grade school crowd. The only trouble I had was with the digital download of the book, for some reason it did not load up well and took a long time to flip through the pages, then the Adobe reader would stop working. For this title however, if I was buying it I would rather have the actual hard copy of the book rather than digital e-book because it is such a beautiful book. Thank you to DK Children for an advanced copy.

Thank you to DK Children and NetGalley for a digital copy of this wonderful book!

I absolutely loved DK books when I was a kid and was giddy when I got approved for this. This is full of really cool facts about explorers and has some super neat pictures to go along with each page! I learned about explorers I had never even heard of. I appreciated that the author pointed out the negative impacts that explorers had when they entered new lands. It's important for kids to know all of the history of something, including the bad. Each page was short and sweet but still enough to get to know about the explorers. Kids will love this book!

Luscious ~ Enchanting ~ Well-researched

tl;dr: Humans has often been moved to leave home and explore the greater world.

Huang and her illustrator Jessamy Hawke have developed a complete winner. I am a lifelong DK book lover. But, the world is quite different than when I was a kid. I was a bit nervous to pick up this book. I am thrilled Huang and Hawke did not step away from the negative aspects of exploration. Nor did they see exploration as unidirectional (from Europe out). This is a book about exploration for this generation. I LOVED the people they chose, younger people, older ones, women, men, people of color. The illustrations are lovely, hitting a hard to accomplish tone of sophisticated naivete. Also, whoever did the layout and design should be getting a few laurels. It looks wonderful.

Thanks to NetGalley and DK for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I love this book! My students will too. There are lots of role models for them to learn about, male and female, all nationalities, a varying abilities. The language is not talking down to the reader, but is accessible to elementary students. They can read about one or more adventurers in a single sitting and while the information is "covered in full" it is easy to think of more questions about the adventures and spur them on to further reading.

Since my childhood, DK has been a strong leader in engaging and encouraging young minds to seek adventure and to learn more while in an exciting manner. Explorers fits perfectly into this line and was truly enjoyed by myself and my young readers in my home. Explorers follows the journey of 5o legendary names and helps us to learn more about the people and places involved. Excellent organization, beautiful illustrations and the story line felt natural and not forced.

Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World’s Greatest Adventures by Nellie Huang does just what its title says—traces the chronological journeys of 50+ explorer/adventurers, a nicely diverse lot in terms of region and gender from the Norse Lief Erikson to the Chinese Zheng He to the French woman Jeanne Baret who disguised herself as a man to go aboard ship to the Australian Aboriginal leader Bungaree and many, many more. The diversity and breadth are definitely two of the strengths of this survey, even if Huang sometimes blurs the line (especially in latter examples) between “explorer” and “adventurer.” But that’s a minor quibble in a collection that either brings to more light underreported examples or offers up a few that, at least in my experience (and I read a good amount in this area) were wholly new to me.

The book is text-heavy, so not really for younger readers—more in the 4th or 5th grade and up I’d say. The illustrations are fine, if not particularly captivating or compelling, but Huang makes very good use of primary documents such as photos and journals. Older books on the topic tend to cover the same old same old white European males (de Game, Columbus, Cook, etc.—all the usual suspects). Newer ones have often broadened to include, say, Zhen He, whose vast armada of huge ships has come more to the forefront in the past decade or so. But I haven’t seen many texts on the topic (or honestly, any that I can recall) that introduce such a broad range of people, cultures, and regions. DK has always been one of my favorite non-fiction publishers for young readers and this book is just yet another example of the excellent work they do.

"Explorers" by Nellie Huang was an interesting read for kids about all the greatest explorers. There was lots of great pictures and illustrations. The book covered the history of earlier explorers starting in Africa and covering famed explorers such as Christopher Columbus and Jacques Cousteau.

This was a wonderful book full of history, geography, and culture for kids.

I received this as an eBook from DK Children via NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review of the title. I did not receive any compensation from either company. The opinions expressed herein are completely my own.

DK Readers knows how to pull in young readers to discover the world and the greatest adventures. The book will have readers coming back to this book as a reference as well as finding new information every times readers open the book. The book covers Ancient Greeks, Zheng, and some of the greatest explorers and some of the lesser known.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher DK Publishing for the advance copy of Nellie Huang Explorers.

Such a fabulous children’s book on global exploration by pioneers who have opened the world! Includes 50 of the greatest adventurers, with accounts in their own voices, rare photos and maps and artwork documenting their trips. Plus 60 of their assistants. This is how history should be taught, vibrantly, through first-person accounts and thrilling stories. Should be on every classroom, library and home bookshelf!

Pub Date 03 Sep 2019.

Thanks to the Nellie Huang, DK, and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are mine.

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An easy and enjoyable resource full of illustrations for kids just like all the other DK children's books we've had.