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

This book was a lot of fun to read. I actually read it with my Niece and Nephew recently and they really enjoyed it. Not only do they learn something but they are entertained while doing it. That is not something easy to do to keep kids entertained. I definitely would have enjoyed this if I were a kid when this was published.

A bright and vivid book filled with the explorers who charted the world. I felt this was in formative and fun to look at. My kids would love this.

This is a fun armchair travel book though history. The book is easy to read with bright illustrations. I liked it that some lesser known explorers were included. Enjoy the travels

This is a great general culture educational children's book in perfect balance with the illustrations.

The content has a wide selection of well-known and lesser-known historical figures, both from the old world and the new, among them some very capable and fearless women who broke standards, credit is given to a couple of little-recognized figures, however, with essential participation. These historical figures are important for their valuable observations, discoveries, record of events, and undoubtedly stand out for their courage, determination, to go beyond their mental, physical and even cultural limits.

Some events mentioned here took a decisive turn in history, which changed the lives of entire countries and even continents, the world economy and even have their effect to this day.
I consider and recommend this educational material, presented with very good quality, with information on elemental culture for children's understanding of important events that shaped the current world they inhabit. They can also clearly visualize in these characters one of the most characteristic features that define our humanity: the need to explore and recreate ourselves, the penetrating curiosity and thirst to know the cosmos we inhabit, the concern to break our limits and borders, ... characteristics that are expressed from childhood and that many times as educators (traditional educational system discourages) we fail to develop in our children.

My sincere appreciation to the Publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to review the book

Thank you for an advanced copy of this book. The graphics were wonderful and inviting. I found my child to be captured with each page.

Succinct yet still providing a surprisingly comprehensive coverage of world explorers from ancient to modern times, Huang highlights a wide variety of people and honestly reveals the harm as well as the good that resulted from exploration. Combined with the illustrations and photographs, this book makes learning history and science seem more like a treasure hunt than homework. Plus, several of the stories spark inspiration, reminding you that limitations don't have to be the end of the story. (I will admit, a few tears were shed in the reading of this book.)

I love DK Publishing! They do a fantastic job.

When it comes to their nonfiction books, they are top-notch. DK does a supreme job of selecting high-engaging topics and designing nonfiction texts that will capture the attention of any reader.

DK's new book, Explorers by Nellie Huang, is no exception to this publishing company's long list of excellent nonfiction books. Explorers focus on the past and present of all the explorers that have helped discovery amazing things about our beautiful world. It highlights hundreds of explorers throughout history. The book is cleverly divided into three main categories: sea, land, and sky. Each category focuses on the explorers that helped lead to huge discoveries throughout these areas.

The text is challenging, but DK does a great job of designing interactive pages. Each page is broken into clear subtopics and it is packed full of great text features to help its readers along. 

I would recommend Explorers to any child who is reading at an upper elementary or middle school level. The academic vocabulary and the topics are complex. This text was designed to teach all about ice, and it does so at a very high-level. 

In addition to high-level text, the partnership between DK and The Smithsonian helped this book really shine. The artifacts that are highlighted and shown in this book are fascinating, and they are sure to hook the hearts of all the young explorers out there in the world today.

Explorers by Nellie Huang is one of the most beautiful books! Full of fun illustrations and exciting facts this book would make a wonderful resource to use in a history lesson. Each page is packed with information and is laid out in a way that is easy for a child to read on their own. This book would make a wonderful gift for any child or teacher.

A colorful brief history given to the world's famous explorers, filled with interesting artwork to keep the reader interest.

Books about explorers are inherently appealing to a young audience. By their very nature they have danger, science, and sociology. The key to a book like this one is to consume it in small amounts. Reading the whole thing in a single sitting can be a bit dull. Instead, visit on occasion to learn about someone new and interesting. Huang keeps it interesting by stretching the definition to include boundary pushers: women, people of color, the young, the aging. People who were told by society they were incapable of a goal and who attempted it anyway. A great book to have on your shelf for occasional reference.

This book is great! I can't wait to show my kids. I think it's perfect for grade school and middle school aged kids to learn about the explorers of the world. The information isn't too much to be overwhelming, but is very informative. Also, the illustrations are beautiful and really draw you in!

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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To be honest, I didn't expect to like this book a whole lot, as books about explorers tend to focus on European white men who traveled hundreds of years ago and often did some pretty awful stuff, and then those books tend to make heroes out of them. This book came as a pleasant surprise, as it not only focuses on explorers from all time periods (from ancient to right now), but it features explorers of all different nationalities and features many women, with the biographies featuring people all the way up to the present (and some pretty interesting ones). It also talks about "the dark side of exploration" and issues like violence, slavery and colonization.

The book is divided into sections of explorers who explored by sea and ice, land, and air and space. Examples of the sea and ice explorers are Pytheas, Leif Erikson, Zheng He, James Cook, Bungaree, Jacques Cousteau, Thor Heyerdahl, Barbara Hillary and Sylvia Earle. Examples of land explorers are Marco Polo, Esteban Dorantes, Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea, Charles Darwin, Nellie Bly, Aloha Wanderwell and Mario Rigby. Examples of air and space explorers are Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova, and Mae Jemison.

The book is filled with lavish, colorful drawings. Lots of facts are tucked into the pages and there are many maps and other useful images.

This would make a great addition to a homeschool or school library, and is a great book for teaching children about explorers throughout history.

My rating system:

1 = hated it
2 = it was okay
3 = liked it
4 = really liked it
5 = love it, plan to purchase, and/or would buy it again if it was lost

I read a temporary digital ARC of the book for the purpose of review.

DK's new book Explorers provides dozens of highly-engaging biographical and historical views of famous and not-yet-famous explorers. Although the achievements of each explorer are highlighted, author Nellie Huang does not ignore the injustices done to the native people of each land "discovered" nor does she ignore that women have also explored the world. She directly addresses issues such as slavery, disease, and gender while keeping the material age appropriate and informational. The illustrations and layout are engaging, and the snippets at the end of the book of additional explorers just might inspire some informal research. I look forward to adding this book to our school collection and hope to use it next year for the 5th-grade unit on explorers.