(4) 4-6 Connect: Discovering the New World series. In text and accompanying illustrations, both volumes in the curriculum-connection series cover much of the same cursory information about early North American explorers during the Age of Exploration, beginning with Christopher Columbus in 1492. With a running timeline format, Chronology skims through European explorers' paths up to 1700; Story tackles a different explorer with each chapter. Critical thinking questions are appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Discovering the New World titles: The Story of North America's First Explorers and A Chronology of North American Exploration.

Reviewer: Kristy Pasquariello