Ambleside Online Marco Polo Books

We don't know of any excellently written books about Marco Polo for children in print, you may have luck checking out what your library has. Some we have seen and can recommend if you can find one:

Marco Polo: A Story of the Middle Ages by Edna Mitchell Preston
To Far Cathay by William C. Bagley Jr., 1935
Marco Polo: Voyager to the Orient by Carol Greene
Marco Polo by Manuel Komroff, illustrated by Edgard Cirlin (Not to be confused with the grown-up book about Marco Polo by Komroff which is currently in print)
Marco Polo book by Milton Rugoff
Marco Polo book by Charles P. Graves
Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo by R. J. Walsh (Landmark Books) was found to be too dry for most students
Marco Polo for Kids (His Marvelous Journey to China) by Janis Herbert is fun, but may have objectionable material and will need parental screening.
Marco Polo by Russell Freedman is a nice option with maps and pictures.

It will be useful to obtain a Marco Polo picture book, either for children or adults, for the student to narrate and then examine the pictures of the the landscapes, artifacts, animals, modes of travel, people, agricultural methods, cities, peroid paintings, trade goods, ancient printing, silk worms, maps. They should also study the maps. As a project the children can mark up a blank (or almost blank map) of Asia with remarkable physical features of the land and other things of interest concerning his travels on a blank map. A good (but out of print) children's book for this is A Marco Polo Picture/Geography book like Marco Polo: Overland to Medieval China (Beyond the Horizons) by Clint Twist.

Marco Polo sites

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Marco/index.html
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/marcopolo.shtml
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/maptext_n2/mongol1.html
http://www.washburn.edu/cas/history/stucker/EHemMap.html
Lesson Plan with many links http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=488
Slide Show http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/5099/sld001.html
National Geographic Feature in two parts
          http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0105/feature1/
          http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0106/feature2/
(Thanks to Lorraine M Nessman for posting many of these links!)

Maps
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/p/polo.shtml
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/maptext_n2/mongol1.html