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Children's Books about Cabeza de Vaca (in chronological order)

  • Aventuras del primer explorador de America, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca by Celso Garcia Moran. Barcelona: Casa editorial Araluce, 1923
  • Galleons Sail Westward by Camilla Campbell. Blockprints by Ena McKinney. Mathis, Van Nort & Co. (Dallas), 1939.
  • Odyssey of Courage : The Story of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, by Maia Wojciechowska, illustrated by Alvin Smith. Atheneum, 1965.
  • Walk the World's Rim by Betty Baker. HarperCollins Children's Books, 1965.
  • Cabeza de Vaca. Manuel Alvarez Morales. Barcelona: AFHA, 1965.
  • The Gentle Conquistadors: The Ten Year Odyssey Across the American Southwest of Three Spanish Captains and Esteban, a Black Slave by Jeannette Mirsky. Illustrated by Thomas Morley. Pantheon Books, 1969.
  • Cabeza de Vaca, defender of the Indians, by Gertrude Lerner Kerman. Harvey House, 1974.
  • First across North America : the Journeys of Cabeza de Vaca and Estevanico the Black. Retold and illustrated by Fred Beasley. Austin, Texas: Graphic Ideas, 1974.
  • Do You Believe in Cabeza De Vaca? by Gladys Swan. University of Missouri Press, 1991.
  • Cabeza De Vaca: New World Explorer, by Keith Brandt, illustrated by Sergio Martinez. Troll Associates, 1993
  • Cabeza De Vaca: Conquistador Who Cared, by Mary Dodson Wade. Colophon House, 1994.
  • The Spanish Exploration of the Southwest: The 16th-Century Journeys of Cabeza De Vaca and Coronado Through the Desert Lands of the American Southwest by Leonore Wilson. Mason Crest Publishers, 2002.
  • Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca (Latinos in American History), by Valerie Menard. Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2003.
  • Crossing a Continent: The Incredible Journey of Cabeza De Vaca, by Lissa Jones Johnston. Eakin Publications, 2003.
  • We Asked for Nothing: The Remarkable Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Stuart Waldman. Illustrated by Tom McNeely. Mikaya Press, 2003.