The way history is taught to children today is very wrong in my opinion. They try to turn it around and make it seem as though it all happened in a very easy kind way. Even though it might have been brutal and wrong. The children's book that I chose was Christopher Columbus by Clara Ingraham Judson. The rating that I gave the book was a 6. The rendetion of the telling of the exploration of …showed first 75 words of 723 total…

…showed last 75 words of 723 total…be taught something it should be the truth. This book in all was a good book but it could have gone into depth about what really happened with the Natives. Although the book de-emphasized issues, and portrayed as a different person, they did in all teach a good lesson. The lesson will help the child in the long run. History, in my opinion should be taught in its full context or not taught at all.