So You Want to be an Explorer?

Well, why wouldn't you want to be an explorer? After all, for thouands of years explorers have been at the cutting edge of discovering the unknown world.

You may know Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, but what about Mary Kingsley, who studied cannibals in Africa (and lived to tell the tale), or Cowboy Jim White, who discovered and explored the fantastic Carlsbad Caverns?

From mountain climbers to astronauts, ship captains to arctic adventurers, missionaries to presidents, to the just plain curious, there are all kinds of explorers...and just think, one of them could be you.

From Judith St. George and David Small - the team who brought us the Caldecott Medal - winning So You Want to be President? - comes this witty, inspirational celebration of explorers big and small, an historical jaunt sure to bring out the explorer in all of us.