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We Asked for Nothing: The Remarkable Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Stuart Waldman, Tom McNeely

sandyd's review

4.0

This was an interesting approach to kid's history - but the pictures were a little too National Geographic reconstruction-ish for me. The history is accurate and the author did a good job structuring the incredible story (with nice sidebars with de Vaca's actual words), but some of the text was a little...not boring, exactly, but it seemed like Waldman tried to cram too many words in here, with not enough passion, or not enough stuff to capture kid's interest. It's hard to do history for kids. I guess I thought it seemed like it was simultaneously aimed at an older audience, but the format was for younger kids (who would probably get bored with the long pages of descriptive text).

The epilogue (what happened to other characters) was excellent, a really nice touch.