Explorers in a New World Dyslexia Series

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The stories of the explorers in this expansive series begin with Christopher Columbus’s accidental discovery of the giant land mass of North America and end centuries later with the mapping of the entire contiguous United States. A Special Series of Books for Children Who Struggle to Read Christopher Columbus never expected to find the great continents of North and South America as he journeyed west toward China. In fact, he didn’t even know that he hadn’t reached the East Indies when he first landed on the islands of the Caribbean; it’s why they’re known as the West Indies today and why, even now, many Americans persist in calling Native Americans “Indians.” It should have excited Columbus to have discovered an entirely new world, unknown to anyone in Europe and Asia. But equally unknown (or at least untaught to most children today) is the fact that he spent the remainder of his life intensely disappointed at his failure to find a water route to China. The people who came after him, at least initially—from countries like Spain, France, England, and Holland—all ca…