Author: Jane Yolen
Illustrator: David Shannon
Awards: none
Grade level: 2nd-5th grade
This is an amazing book that talks about Christopher Columbus discovering new land, yet there were already Native Americans inhabiting the land. The story is told through the eyes of a young boy who has a bad dream about these men coming, but none of his people listened to him because he was just a young boy. Throughout the story, we see how slowly but surely Christopher Columbus and his men take over the land, and at the end of the story, the young boy at the beginning has now grown into an old man. He talks about how they took on the strangers speech, soon forgetting their own.
This book is great, and I love how it shows the other side when Christopher Columbus set sail to find new land. I said this book would be appropriate for grades between 2nd-5th because I feel like at that level they really would understand what is happening in the book. This book would be great to read during history and learning about Christopher Columbus, as well as challenging the students to see if there are any other books that have a different viewpoint during the same time period.
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