Text, maps, and mazes follow the journeys of ten explorers, including Leif Erikson, Marco Polo, Vasco da Gama, David Livingstone, and Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5?Using Highlights-style puzzles as a hook, Snedden introduces 10 famous explorers, chronologically arranged, beginning with Leif Eriksson and ending with the Apollo 11 crew. Each heavily illustrated, four-page chapter begins with a double-page spread containing a brief biographical sketch and a maze. Another spread presents a map of the explorer's route accompanied by numbered paragraphs that explain each step of the journey, as well as the solution to the maze. One problem?apart from the obvious one that, as a circulating library book, Explor-a-Maze will be returned "solved" by eager elementary puzzlers?is that the colorful puzzles are on a second-grade level, while the text is closer to a fifth-grade level. Containing inconsequential mazes, simplistic and occasionally speculative text, and reasonably descriptive maps, this is a busy book best used as supplemental material in a social-science curriculum.?John Sigwald, Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, TX
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Gr. 3^-5. Part puzzle book, part history, this unusual volume introduces children to the explorations of Leif Erikson, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, Captain James Cook, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. For each exploration, the first large double-page spread invites readers to find their way through a maze that has graphics inspired by various themes; the second spread includes a map of the actual route and a series of paragraphs numbered to correspond to places on the map. Throughout the book, brightly colored paintings (each section painted by a different artist) give the pages an inviting look. Other sources would be better for research, but this might be a good choice for leading puzzle-lovers into the subject of exploration. Carolyn Phelan
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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