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    Animals Christopher Columbus Saw: An Adventure in the New World
    Animals Christopher Columbus Saw: An Adventure in the New World
    Animals Christopher Columbus Saw: An Adventure in the New World
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    Animals Christopher Columbus Saw: An Adventure in the New World

    By Sandra Markle and Jamel Akib

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    In this series by award-winning author Sandra Markle, famous explorers take a back seat to the animals they encountered along the way. While nothing about Christopher Columbus' journey was expected, he couldn't have imagined feasting on roasted lizard! Through nimble writing and beautiful paintings, this series casts the past in a whole new light!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateJul 22, 2011
    ISBN9781452108759
    Animals Christopher Columbus Saw: An Adventure in the New World
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    Sandra Markle

    Sandra Markle is the author of numerous award-winning books for children. A former elementary science teacher, she is a nationally-known science education consultant. Markle has received many honors for her series Animal Predators, Animal Scavengers, and Animal Prey. Several titles have been named as National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)/Children’s Book Council (CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, and Animal Predators was honored as a Top 10 Youth Nonfiction Series by Booklist. Markle is also the author of the Insect World series and several single titles. Her book Rescues! was named a Best Book by the Society of School Librarians International and a Recommended Title of Outstanding Nonfiction by the National Council of Teachers of English’s (NCTE) Orbis Pictus Award committee; Animal Heroes was named a 2008 Lasting Connections title by Book Links. Markle lives in Lakewood Ranch, Florida with her husband, photographer Skip Jeffery.

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      One of Sandra Markle's four-book Explorers series - the other three are Animals Charles Darwin Saw, Animals Marco Polo Saw and Animals Robert Scott Saw - which is intended to introduce young readers to the interconnected nature of history and biology, this picture-book focuses on the story of Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage to the West Indies, and the animals he encountered along the way. From manatees - which Columbus mistook for "ugly mermaids" - to colorful Cuban parrots, it was a whole new world of species (sorry, I couldn't resist!) to the European explorers. Unfortunately, some of the "old world" traveled with the explorers to the "new" one, from rats (previously unknown in the Caribbean) to disease...As with the other entries in this series, I particularly appreciated the multidisciplinary approach here, in which two seemingly distinct areas of study - history and science - are shown to be very much interconnected. Although the focus here is on the natural world, I also appreciated the fact that Markle doesn't gloss over unpleasant realities, like the fact that Columbus was already thinking of enslavement, when assessing the natives. In any case, I highly recommend Animals Christopher Columbus Saw, along with the other books in this series, to young naturalists and historians, and to any child interested in exploration and discovery.

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    Animals Christopher Columbus Saw - Sandra Markle

    Animals Christopher Columbus Saw

    An Adventure in the New World

    by Sandra Markle         illustrations by Jamel Akib

    With love to my husband, Skip Jeffery, with

    whom I enjoy exploring the world—S.M.

    Acknowledgments

    The author would like to thank the following people for sharing their enthusiasm and expertise: James E. Kelley Jr., coeditor of The Diario of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage to America, 1492–1493 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989), and a member of the Council for the Society for the History of Discoveries; Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Peck, retired United States Air Force officer and respected ocean navigator, who conducted the first-ever field study of Columbus’s first voyage by sailing solo across the Atlantic; Keith Pickering, author of research papers on Columbus’s navigation and consultant to the National Geographic Society on Columbus’s first voyage; and Dr. Thomas Tirado, professor of history emeritus, past professor of Latin American history, and head of Millersville University’s Columbian Quincentenary Project, an internationally supported online database of journals, correspondence, and media reports regarding Columbus and the legacy of his voyages.

    Text © 2008 by Sandra Markle.

    Illustrations © 2008 by Jamel Akib.

    All rights reserved.

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