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    The World Made New
    The World Made New
    The World Made New
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    The World Made New

    Written by Marc Aronson

    Narrated by Jonathan Hogan

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    Imagine your shock at waking up one morning to a fleet of enormous, otherworldly craft looming over you. And when bizarre aliens begin to emerge-speaking strange gibberish-your heart races even faster. Similar fears may have gripped New World inhabitants when diverse civilizations-separated by a vast ocean-first met. American natives once knew nothing of towering ships, galloping horses, thundering guns, or smallpox. From 1492 onward, however, waves of adventurers would give them a cruel introduction. And yet, ultimately, New World dwellers-together with their Old World counterparts-would become transformed by these global connections. Historian and author Marc Aronson-a Library Journal Best Book honoree and a Robert F. Sibert Award winner for excellence in nonfiction-teams up with John W. Glenn to give kids and their parents a fresh perspective on New World exploration. "Add this to Aronson's growing body of fine historical works that are changing how young readers think about history."-Kirkus Reviews "This splendid, exciting . account of the Age of Exploration relates events so dramatic that they would have been dismissed as implausible fiction if they hadn't actually happened. Don't think of this as 'just' a book for kids: children's parents will find it equally gripping and informative."-Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning UCLA professor
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 30, 2013
    ISBN9781470354947
    The World Made New
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    Marc Aronson

    Marc Aronson is the acclaimed author of Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert, which earned four starred reviews. He is also the author of Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, winner of the ALA’s first Robert F. Sibert Award for nonfiction and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. He has won the LMP award for editing and has a PhD in American history from New York University. Marc is a member of the full-time faculty in the graduate program of the Rutgers School of Communication and Information. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife, Marina Budhos, and sons. You can visit him online at MarcAronson.com.

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    • 4/5
      Information is presented about the Age of Exploration in chronological order. The book explains the causes, what happened, and the consequences. There are large photographs and illustrations presented throughout the book. The information is easy to read and the author has condensed the information into a few pages for each topic. It could be used for many different units- study of Columbus, Age of Exploration, conquistadors, history of colonization in the Americas, etc. It could be adapted for any grade although the target grades are probably 3rd - 8th.
    • 5/5
      This book describes how the world we know today began in 1492 and how it has been constantly changing since then. It is a timeline of the Age of Exploration. I really like how sophisticated the text is and how it strays away from common terms such as "discoverers" and "natives". The book is creatively illustrated with maps, paintings, and prints and is one that people will enjoy for pleasure as well as research.
    • 5/5
      I was super impressed with this book. As a historian, I found it to be very satisfying to read an informational book for children that gave proper information, all while keeping the information simple and understandable. When it comes to history, it is really easy to lose listeners when one starts to sound "too academic." the basic gist of this book is identifying and examining the effects of the age of exploration, and in turn, how those events changed the course of world history. The book didn't even focus entirely on Eurocentric perspectives! (although that was the majority of the book...) Honestly though, that is not a terribly big problem for a young reader just breaking into historical study so I chose to ignore it. This book covered war, migration, religion, and disease. It really painted a good picture of what the columbian exchange was, and what it meant to the world. I would highly recommend this book to young reader.
    • 3/5
      This book provides an interesting demonstration of organization. Divided into three major sections, Causes, What Happened, and Consequences, subtopics and details are easily located. Marc Aronson and John Glenn make a point to provided information from a global perspective as opposed to a European-centered discussion. Although the text is a bit dry, the illustrations, specifically the timelines, break up the text nicely. This text would be an excellent resource in middle and high school Social Studies classrooms, but would also make an excellent example in classrooms studying ways to organize text.
    • 2/5
      This book is about how the Americas were founded. It tells about how Columbus went about discovering them to what all happened in the mean time.I thought this book was a very informational book about how the americas were found. I'm not a big history buff so I got a little bored reading this book. But it does give alot of good facts to what happened around that time.In the classroom this would be a good book to use when the students are studying Columbus and when the New World was found. I would have the students write a short book report after we read this book and sudied this.
    • 4/5
      3P"The story of the Age of Exploration is, in the end, about being human. Faced with a situation that was impossible to comprehend, some responded with greed, with violence, with fear. But others recognized this as a moment for invention, for creation, for compassion. They found a way to be human in a situation no human being had ever faced. They were the true heroes of the age."
    • 4/5
      4Q 3Pp. 50 "The story of the Age of Exploration is, in the end, about being human. Faced with a situation that was impossible to comprehend, some responded with greed, with violence with fear. But others recognized this as a moment for invention, for creation, for compassion. They found a way to be human in a situation no human being had ever faced."
    • 4/5
      This is a timeline of exploration in American history. It has pictures of people and places and gives brief blurbs on each exploration.