Who Was Marco Polo?
Paperback – Illustrated, July 5, 2007
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · July 5, 2007
Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back!
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- Who it’s for
- A readable biography pairs Marco Polo’s far-reaching travels with a question about how much to believe.
- Themes
- Marco Polo's travels to China, The truth of Marco Polo's accounts
- Genres
- Historical Biographies for Kids, Exploration & Discovery, Medieval History for Kids
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Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up?
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Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable Who Was . . . ? biography with black-and-white artwork by John O?Brien.
Travel and Testimony
A readable biography pairs Marco Polo’s far-reaching travels with a question about how much to believe.
Come here for
- A young traveler crossing from Venice toward Kublai Khan’s China
- The curious gap between reported wonders and what may have happened
Expect
- An entertaining, highly readable biography for young readers
- Black-and-white artwork alongside the account
Where it sits
| Historical Biographies for Kids | 85% |
|---|---|
| Exploration & Discovery | 47% |
| Medieval History for Kids | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Biographies for Kids
- Asian History for Kids
- Exploration & Discovery
- Authors
- Joan Holub
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- July 5, 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Marco Polo's travels to China · The truth of Marco Polo's accounts
- Reading lane
- Historical Biographies for Kids