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Wade, Mary Dodson

Amazing Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson

24 pp. | Enslow/Elementary | August, 2009 | Library ISBN 978-0-7660-3286-6 $21.26
(4) K-3 Amazing Americans series. Henson's accomplishments as one of the first men--and the first African American--to reach the North Pole are the focus of this easy-to-read biography. Though Wade doesn't discuss discrimination in depth, she does touch on the subject ("Because Henson was African American, nobody talked about what he had done"). Stock photographs are featured opposite the text on each spread. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

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