Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu

This book has beautiful pictures and a nicely written story. Highly recommend.

My 5 year old was captivated by the story of the search for the lost city of the Incas. We read this book many times before our visit to Machu Picchu. She was thrilled to climb up the steep trail and come out on the hill overlooking the city to find the view "looks just like in my story!"There's enough detail to make the story interesting for adults to read aloud. The inclusion of the little boy who helps Bingham locate the lost city makes the story even more enticing for young readers. My daughter remembered all the facts from the story and was so excited to see the real place and learn that it was a true story.I very strongly recommend this book for young kids interested in Andean peoples or who will be visiting Machu Picchu.

I bought this book as a gift for my 7-year-old nephew. I recently returned from a trip to Peru and my nephew was asking a lot of questions about the Inca and Machu Picchu. There aren't many books for kids for sale in the US about Machu Picchu, but this one is very good at telling the story from the point of view of Bingham and the boy who helped him to "discover" Machu Picchu.I think the illustrations are beautiful and the story held my nephew's attention.

Dominated by beautiful artwork, this picture book traces Hiram Bingham's trek from Cuzco to his discovery of Machu Picchu - the so-called Lost City of the Incas. A few of the key characters involved in this specific segment of Bingham's 1911 are interspersed into the short book, but the boy whose family was living and farming on Machu Picchu and led Bingham to the ruins, creates a dreamlike quality to the tale. Lewins' watercolors fill the entire pages and explode with color, shading, details and subtlety. The story is written in language appropriate for readers in grades 1-3, and works equally wonderfully when read by an adult.Machu Picchu was named one of the NEW seven wonders of the world in 2007 and Bingham's "discovery" of Machu Picchu celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. My 7-year-old stared at the images in Lewin's book in awe, and could relate to the boy who leads Bingham to the incredible stonework ruins that straddle two magnificent peaks of the might Andes. This is a terrific introduction to a legendary story of a legendary people.

Bought this book for my granddaughter to help explain Machu Picchu (we recently returned from a trip there). The drawings are beautiful but the language is a bit awkward and not as "kid friendly" as I had hoped.

This is a book for very small children and provides only rudimentary information on Machu Picchu. I was disappointed.

My 5 and 7 year old grandsons were very interested in this book. It even kept my attention and interest.

I use it for my close reading. Love it for fifth grade.

This is a relatively wordy picture book about discovering Machu Picchu. It is more about the discovery than the place itself. I found the scenes where a boy near Machu Picchu was anticipating the arrival of Western explorers a bit strange. The illustrations are good and there is a useful factual section at the back. Good for adding to a classroom or school library South American collection but I am not sure it is one I would use as a classroom read-aloud text.

This is a children’s picture book. I’m not sure if I just didn’t understand the description but it’s not what I expected. It’s only a few pages and is not compatible with my older model kindle. I could only open in the kindle app on my iPad.