UNCOMMON TRAVELER: Mary Kingsley in Africa

Don Brown, . . Houghton/Sandpiper, $5.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-618-36916-4

"Brown again trolls feminist history for an engaging heroine, this time the redoubtable British explorer Mary Kingsley," wrote PW. The woman who set off to see the wilds of West Africa in 1892, at age 30, emerges as "an intrepid and admirable character." Ages 4-8. (Aug.)

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