The Khan of Persia's favourite wife has died, and Kublia Khan, Emperor of all China, decrees that Princess Kokachin shall replace her. What is more, Kokachin's escort to Perisa is to be the great Venetian traveller, Marco Polo! Kokachin's diary describes her long, dangerous sea voyage beset by storms, disease, pirate attacks - and when eventually she reaches Persia, surprising news awaits her...Based on Marco Polo's 13th -century journals, Heather Maisner's text and Sheila Moxley's evocative illustrations re-create a fascinating time when east and west travelled side by side.
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Heather Maisner is author of over 30 children's books, translated into 8 languages, including the award-winning Magic Hourglass , Magic Globe and Diary of a Princess . She also teaches creative writing to children.
Her books range from picture books to books for fluent young readers to historical non-fiction. Man
More about Heather MaisnerRoger McGough was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when he contributed poems to the Penguin title The Mersey Sound, which has since sold over a million copies and is now available as a Penguin Classic. He has published many books of poems for children and adults, and both his Collected Poems (2004) and Selected Poems (2006) are also available in P
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