Marco Polo - Dangers and Visions

Reviewed by: Melissa Madigan - Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: February 8, 2018

Review

We all remember learning about Marco Polo and his journey's to the Far East. This graphic novel tries to do this in an illustrated way. But there are so many theme's in the story (destruction by war, the role of religion and importance of family and most of all the meaning of life) that it is difficult to understand all the complexities of the story.I use to teach ancient history and even Marco Polo and I found I needed to keep re-reading much of the story and I still had problems following the story line. This puzzle of a story would be too difficult for the average youth reader to understand.

Overall Book Score: good