Ultimate Explorer Guide

Explore, Discover, and Create Your Own Adventures With Real National Geographic Explorers as Your Guides!

By Nancy Honovich

Paperback

Published on Mar 14, 2017 | 160 Pages

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Grades 3–7
Ages 8–12

National Geographic has inspired generations of explorers. Now it’s your turn! Learn what it takes to be a real-life explorer in this fun and action-packed guide to discovering the world around us. Unearth ancient mummies and lost treasures, encounter wild animals and learn how to protect their habitats, and shoot for the stars with the latest technologies in space travel. Amazing stories, fantastic photos, and hands-on-activities inspire curious kids to start discovering on land, air, and sea. Profiles feature National Geographic explorers of all kinds: paleontologists, biologists, photographers, artists, writers, activists, conservationists, and more. Kids are inspired to follow their passions into careers and introduced to the first steps to take to achieve their dream.

ISBN 9781426327094 (Paperback)
Published on Mar 14, 2017
Published by National Geographic Kids
Pages 160
Dimensions 6 x 9
Age Range 8-12 years
Grade Grades 3-7
Reading Level Lexile: 960L | Fountas/Pinnell: T

Nancy Honovich

NANCY HONOVICH is the author of many articles, short stories, and books for children that explore a wide range of subjects, from knights and inventors to animals all over the world. She works as an editor in New York City.

Expert reviewer DR. JENNIFER R. HOUSER WEGNER is a research scientist in Penn Museum’s Egyptian section and adjunct assistant professor in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She served as keeper of the museum’s Egyptian section from 1996 to 2000. Dr. Wegner has contributed to numerous publications and presented at several annual meetings of the American Research Center in Egypt and at the International Congress of Egyptologists in Cambridge, U.K. She has also served as epigrapher/artist on expeditions to Bersheh, Saqqara, and Abydos in Egypt. She earned her B.A in Egyptology from the University of Pennsylvania and doctorate from Yale University.