Written in the form of an interactive mystery, Roanoke The Lost Colony: An Unsolved Mystery from History was published in 2003 by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple. Unlike the other historical picture books I have previously read, this story provides more factual information rather than stretching the truth and turning the information into more of a humorous setting. Throughout the story, the details surrounding the Lost Colony known as Roanoke are depicted as the little girl who is a detective struggles to put together clues to find out what happened to the settlers who disappeared after colonizing near what they thought was the Chesapeake Bay.
The information presented throughout the story is extremely immense as it accurately depicts the events happening among the colonists during during this time in history. In particular, each page has separate segments of information for the reader to take in. The story line takes place however on the side is a notepad which provides readers with additional information regarding the events taking place in the story. The reader does not have to read the text in the notepad to understand the story however it provides a strong background of knowledge to the help the reader grow. Aside from the story and the notepad, each page also has a third box which defines unknown vocabulary words that might have appeared at some other point on the page. This is a strong resource for readers to rely on and I even found myself looking to the yellow box to help understand words that I was not familiar with. All in all, this text is extremely rich in the information it presents as readers can use all of the details to come up with their own conclusion as to what they think happened to the Lost Colony while John White was away.
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