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Who Was Marco Polo?


Who Was

School year: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

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No. of pages 112

Published: 2016

Great for age 7-13 years

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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 travelled 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? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable Who Was ...? Biography with black and white artwork by John O'Brien.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Who Was, Who Was? .

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by Grosset and Dunlap .

John O'Brien, author and illustrator of The Twelve Days of Christmas and Mother Hubbard's Christmas, lives in Delran, New Jearsey. Joan Holub has authored and/or illustrated over 120 children's books. She lives in Raleigh, N. C.

 

This book is in the following series:

Who Was

Who Was?

This book features the following character:

Marco Polo
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 travelled 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?