We love this book! We had a wonderful time with it and all 3 boys have read it on their own more than once.
You can either look up a few words before reading a section or you can make a note of some as you go; don’t do TOO many though, and try not to break up the flow of reading too much. If you want to do, say, 20 words a day you might want to try to figure out a few from context and only look up the ones you have no idea about.
It’s a little fanciful for serious geography study, but we did keep a map one time when we read it and drew the “journey” on it.
Have fun!
