Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? - Hardcover

Fritz, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399207236 ISBN 13: 9780399207235

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile, 1980

Synopsis

An amusing account of Columbus's determined but slightly miscalculated attempts to find a new ocean route to the Indies describes his four voyages across the Ocean Sea

About this title

About the Author:

Acclaimed biographer, Jean Fritz, was born in China where she lived until the age of thirteen. She tells her story in Homesick, My Own Story, a Newbery Honor Book.      Ms Fritz is the author of forty-five books for children and young people. Many center on historical American figures, gaining her a reputation as the premier author of biographies for children and young people.      Among the prestigious awards Ms. Fritz has garnered are: a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Non-Fiction Award, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and many ALA Notable Books of the Year, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, and ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice Awards.   

Review:

Praise for WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS?

An ALA Notable Book
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Notable Children’s Book of the Year
An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists
A Child Study Children’s Book Committee (Bank Street College) Children’s Book of the Year
 
* “Vividly related... interesting.”—School Library Journal, starred review

“Well written and informative.”—Children’s Literature

“Intriguing and entertaining.”—Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0399207236
• ISBN 13: 9780399207235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80