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This was a very interesting book and would love to read it again. I would recommend this book to teachers and curios kids.I would personally use this to teach kids. My favorite parts were the interesting facts and cool pictures. I would recommend this to people who have decided to home school. This was a very easy way to grip very interesting facts. I cant wait to read more of these kids of books.

This was a very interesting book about a traveler of the world. First it talked about how Marco-Polo was traveling the world and found a person to travel with. The person traveled with him was a big fan of him. Then it talked about how they met a king and the king wanted a wife. Marco-Polo got a wife for the king of Japan and the was happy. After, they went home for about two years and then started traveling again. They had many different and many more journeys after they went home. ( )

I liked this book, “You Wouldn’t Want to Explore with Marco Polo ” for several reasons. First, this book is an introduction for children exploring who Marco Polo was in history and the journey he embarked on in his life. The book is divided into chapters highlighting the major events and people he encountered on his journey. One of the sections is called “The Wonderful City”, which talks about where Marco Polo traveled, the cities he visited and the people he met during his travels. “The wonders of Cambulac, the khan’s capital, are beyond belief. The city is incredibly vast, and in bustles of people.” Each section describes their travel journey, step-by-step, from the beginning to the end. The illustrations of the events that happened on the journeys are very detailed. There are also pictures of some of the real artifacts used on the trip. Some of the artifacts shown are Marco’s maps, the temples he visited, the types of people he met, and the government he met in some of the cities. Another reason I like the book is there are words in bold print throughout the book, which are listed in the back of the book, along with their meaning, under a page titled “Glossary”. Also, there is another page titled “Index” which recaps major words from the book about Marco Polo. In the beginning of the book the page titled “Introduction gives background knowledge for the child reading the book to understand what was happening during this period in time. This makes the students think of the questions before, during, and after reading about Marco Polo’s journey. Overall, this story teaches children about the true history of Marco Polo’s journey that started in the year 1269. ( )

Another fun one in this series. There were several interesting factoids that we hadn't picked up in other Marco Polo books and of course the kids love the word bubbles as usual. The gross factor on this one was less than others of the series. ( )

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