Citation:  Encounter by Jane Yolen and David Shannon, ill.  New York:  Harcourt Brace, 1992.

ISBN: 978-0-15-201389-9

Annotation: Columbus’ coming to America and landing on San Salvador is told from the point-of-view of a Taino child. He describes how Columbus exploited these people and took them as slaves.

Media: Paintings done in acrylic

Personal Rating: 4Q/4P

Curricular Connections:  This would be a good choice to teach point-of-view in a History class. Columbus’ coming to America is told from the perspective of a Taino child who sees his culture, people, and language destroyed.  This book offers the perspective not given in traditional History texts.  Yolen has supplied an “Author’s Note” that gives details about Columbus’ landing on San  Salvador. Students can research Columbus and write reports based the Taino’s perspective.  The illustrations are fantastic and honor the Taino people.

Grade Level or Age Range: Grades 5 and 6

By: Joanne Maher July 26th, 2009

Encounter by Jane Yolen and David Shannon, ill. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1992.

            ISBN: 0152259627

            Annotation: this is the story of the conquest of America by Cristobal Colon retold by a Taino boy. It retells how they were greedy and how they took him and how different they were from him.

            Media: paintings made in acrylic

            Rating: 5Q/5P

Subject: History. Grade 5-9

Armando Rivera 5-07-09

Encounter, by Jane Yolen and David Shannon, ill. New York: Harcourt, 1992.

ISBN: 978-0152013899

Annotation: Yolen uses simple but lyrical language to evoke what the reaction of the native people might have been to the landing of Columbus in 1492.

Illustrations: acrylic

Curricular Use: 6^th-9^th grade; History/Social Studies

4Q/4P

Book trailer URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01SKUjCCVGU&feature=channel

DM 6/27/09

Encounter by Jane Yolen and David Shannon, ill. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1992.

ISBN: 0-15-225962-7

For this alternative story of Columbus’s discovery of the New World, Jane Yolen imagines a young Taino boy retelling the events of the Spaniards’ conquest and decimation of America’s native cultures.

Media: acrylics

Rating: 5Q/5P

Posted by LA 4/9/8