Five Brave Explorers

Great Black Heroes

by Wade Hudson, Ron Garnett (Illustrator)

Esteban Dorantes --
Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable --
James Pierce Beckwourth --
Matthew A. Henson --
Mae C. Jemison

With inspiring and educational stories, Scholastic's Hello Reader series caters to the spectrum of reading abilities among beginning readers. My First Hello Readers use basic words to reinforce phonics and sight vocabulary. The books at this level offer punch-out flash cards plus six additional pages of skill-building activities. Levels 1 - 4 combine a greater vocabulary and longer sentence length. Each book has an introductory letter from an education specialist guiding parents on how to help their children learn to read.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Biography, Childrens, African American

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Wade Hudson is the author of nearly 30 books for children and Young adults. He and his wife Cheryl are the founders of Just Us Books, Inc., a leading publisher of multicultural books for children.

Reviews

[Prabhat sharma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five Brave Explorers – Great Black Heros by Wade Husdon Illustrator Ron Garnett - Children’s Illustrated Picture Book- (1) Esteban Dorantes, (1500-1539) King Ferdinand of Spain planned to locate Florida, USA. He sent 5 ships with army men, settlors and adventurous Spaniards. Ship started in February, 1527. Esteban Dorantes belonged to Morocco, Africa. He was a slave with Andress. In April, 1528 they reached Florida. 300 of the strongest men reached the shore on a boat. Villagers from Village Apalachen fought with them with bows and arrows. They had to run away and save their lives. However, as they did not find their ships, they constructed 5 boats and moved. They crossed Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. A few of them died. Ultimately, 5 of them were captured by Kapocuis tribe. They lived for 5 years as captives. Andress Dorantes, Alfonso Del Castillo Maldonaldo, Cabejja D Veca and Esteban Dorantes. During this period, Esteban Dorantes learnt the way to Spanish village in Mexico. He also learnt what food was available in that area. All 5 ran away from captivity and in 1530 they reached Mexico. Here they informed about the new places they had found. Dorentes sold Esteban Dorantes to the Governor of Mexico. Governor order Esteban Dorantes to begin another adventure journey. He found out Arizona and New Mexico. Esteban Dorantes died during this expedition. (2) Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable (1745-1818) DuSable was son of a French father and Negro slave. After death of his mother, DuSable was educated in France. He learnt French, Spanish and English. At the age of 20 he came to Haiti. With his friend Jaques Clamorgan, they moved by boat to America. They reached New Orleans. He shifted to Dusebal, Fort Paeoria, Illinois for trading animal hide. He married Katihawa who belonged to Potawatomi tribe. In 1799 he established a trading post in Ashicago which was located between St Louis and Montreal, Canada. In 1800, DuSable sold his trading post area for $ 18000 to Jean Lalimae. John Kinzi was witness to this transfer of property document. DuSable returned to Peoria, Illinois where he purchased 800 -acre land. After death of his wife he shifted to Missouri. He expired in 1818. Today the area established by him is known as Chicago. In 1968, it was accepted that DuSable has established Chicago. (3) James Pierce Beckwourth (1798- 1866) was born in Fredrick county, Virginia. When he was 8- year old his parents shifted to St Louis, Missouri. He learnt trade of Hammersmith. He joined General William Henry Ashley who hunted and caught animals. DuSable located in west California from Sierra Nevada to Long Valley. for all. He sold animals and their skin. DuSable became a Frontiersman. He fought many battles for his master. He travelled to New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, Montana. He expired in 1866. (4) Matthew A. Henson (1866-1955) Henson was a North Pole explorer. In 1909, Henson, Admiral Pierre, Robert Harriet moved for North Pole expedition. Base camp was established in Camp Columbia, Canada. They had to travel 450 miles by sledge run by dogs. Henson was one of the 4 Inuit guides for this exploration. Henson reached North Pole before team members. Later Admiral Pierre and others reached North Pole. Henson is seen carrying the US Flag on North Pole. (5) Mae C. Jemison, Space Explorer born 1956. Mae was born in Decatur, Georgia. At the age of 16-years she completed High School and got a scholarship for Stanford University. She completed her Medical studies. In 1985 she applied to NASA for her candidature as space traveler. In August, 1987, she was selected for training for 1- year. She joined Adventurer space ship in 1991. Such books are educative and encouraging for young minds. Coloured pictures illustrations are helpful to reader to associate with the text. I have read this book in Hindi language.

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent picture book summary reviews of each life, would serve as good springboards to finding more in-depth biographies about each person. Richly illustrated throughout, covers past explorers to modern times at NASA. It isn’t strictly about only people born in North America but they all made significant impacts to the continent. Good for all ages, but particularly good for practicing emergent readers!

[Melissa Namba · Rating 5 out of 5]

a great book for black history month that will introduce young kids to some figures that they might not learn about otherwise. i loved the last one about Mae Jemison the most.

[Chelsie Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent selection of mini biographies. Covers five explores all the way back to the 16th century. This was a unique set of people who were vital to development of the western world but are rarely heard about in the history books (three of the people in this book I had never heard of before). This book also does a nice job of exploring the lives of the explorers in chronological order. A good read that led me to want to learn more about these five explorers.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book to talk about Black history. Another book that I found in a 6th classroom that a few of the children said they enjoyed reading.

[Twyla · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned about five explorers. My favorite one was Mae because she's a girl.
Auryn - 7yo

[Jasmine Roberson · Rating 5 out of 5]

traces the accomplishments of Jean DuSable, James Beckwourth, Matthew Hudson, Mae Jeminson, and Estenben Dorantes. Great look at African and African American History

[Suzanne · Rating 2 out of 5]

The kids' favorite sections are those on Mae Jemison and Matthew Henson.

[Deborah Harris]

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