Beales, R. A. James Cook: The Pacific Coast and Beyond. Crabtree: 2006. ISBN: 0-7787-2415-8. Ages 9-13.
Beales created this book to teach children about James Cook who made three voyages throughout the Pacific and charted the Pacific. Beales makes this book more interesting and entertaining by using pictures and photographs to help explain the setting or help kids look and follow the journeys by showing maps. Beales writing style is informative and did not get into much depth as in vivid action words and such. He did have his work very organized and well planned out, though. The pictures really help the reader get a feel for the setting and gives examples to help the reader understand what is being read. I would only recommend this book to someone if they were doing a report or liked history a lot. It was just mainly boring unless you got really interested in it.
Reviewed by M.M., 7th grade, Van Buren Middle School
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