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sandylovesbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Lots of information in this book. I didn't know a lot about this subject but this book makes it easy to get this information without being too depressing. I think this is a great way to get kids to read about this subject. If it was so depressing kids wouldn't read it. This is a great way to talk about the bad things in our past.
sandylovesbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Love all the info and great graphics. I did like the part where they meet a unicorn.
sandylovesbooks's review against another edition
5.0
I really liked this book in the You Wouldn't Want... series. I've always been interested in "Typhoid Mary" and what really happened. Especially since she couldn't have been the only one. And I didn't realize she lived such a long life.
sandylovesbooks's review against another edition
4.0
This had a little tidbit of information that I didn't know. (Not saying I know everything in these books) I always wondered how they built the pyramids and this book showed how they may have used ramps going up around the pyramid. And I'm glad I live now and not then. Of course, I love the illustrations. Great series.
optimaggie's review
3.0
The writing style, written as though you (the child) are a character in it, in this case a Shakespearean actor, drives me a bit nuts. And reading aloud a book like this with thought bubbles is rarely fun. Perhaps I would have enjoyed this more had this been the first book we had read on Shakespeare and the theaters he wrote for, but it wasn't and there was nothing new here.
nikireads100's review against another edition
4.0
From my seven year old: I liked this book especially because they thought Rino’s where unicorns, and crocodiles were serpents. This book was a fun way to learn about Marco Polos and his travels to China.
poplartears's review against another edition
3.0
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.
ubalstecha's review against another edition
3.0
Tells the tale of Marco Polo's famous trip to the Far East from the point of view of a servant who gets to accompany them. The read is asked to imagine themselves in the shoes of the servant as Marco, his father and his uncle face innumerable crises and hurdles in their trip east.
Again, this series likes to focus on the shocking and/or gross facts from the story to pull in the reluctant reader. Full of comic style illustrations, it is a must for teachers studying Chinese history or the history of explorers.
Again, this series likes to focus on the shocking and/or gross facts from the story to pull in the reluctant reader. Full of comic style illustrations, it is a must for teachers studying Chinese history or the history of explorers.