Age: 3rd-5th grade
Media: ink and watercolor

You'll find around 57 explorers cram packed in this introduction to the various forms of exploration. The paintings/drawings are pretty captivating leaning towards caricatures. The fast-paced tone is one of excitement and flattery.

While the title holds much promise, this book was a disappointment. The biggest downfall is the excessive amount of explorers introduced. Each explorer's discoveries are simplified facts without much build up and room to highlight specific traits amongst the explorers (lightly, awkwardly mentioned). Precious space is wasted with superfluous details like "Ms. Mary looked like a proper lady. But under her long skirts? Men's trousers" (12). While these are unique and cute and help split up the list of discoveries, they waste time that could be given relating the explorers to the audience. I also really disliked the way St. George handled the effect of exploration on native civilizations, saying that "bad explorers can do the natives in" (20).

This would have been better split up into two books, each at the same length of this book.