The Silk Road: Explore the World's Most Famous Trade Route with 20 Projects Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 2011

We are a home-school family - and this was the perfect book as a lesson plan for my 12-year-old daughter to learn about the Silk Road! From this book, we were able to further look things up that kinda spun off of the idea of the silk road such as silk production, animals use, recipes we can cook. But this book was an amazing start to get us thinking and learning about the most historical trading route on this planet! Thanks!!!

Great addition to arts integration lessons!

Great book for children around 8-11 years, but would have preferred a little more systemtic approach to history or geography.

Once you start to try to teach the huge expanse of distance and time that is the SIlk Roa, you need some help. The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History John Major's "The Silk Route" is vital, and so is this book by Kathy Ceceri.This book not only provides the history and a glimpse of the cultures, but also offers activities that your kids can do BY THEMSELVES. This is important.The activities include things like:Make a Gordian Knot (leather laces work very well)Make a Paiza Passport (Sculpee clay is great, and paintable.)Make a Rihla travel journal -- actually a great project for any long family trip)Embroider a butterfly (directions are difficult to follow -- offer help)Make a felt rug (this works great)Evil Eye Glass Marble (we didn't try this)Recipe for spiced teaMake a Silk Road map (very cool)Experiment with fire at high altitudeExperiment with salt to keep water from freezingMake a model yurt (great results)Recipe for Lagman noodlesGame: shooting bonesMake an abacusMake paper (needs adult help)and moreClear text. This is excellent work. You need this book.

I loved for the most part for the projects and easy to read overview of the vast historical period and geographical area. Someone has to really proof read for a second edition. Kazakh is misspelled as Kazahk, and there are a few other errors as well I can see. And I am not a historian in any measure.Also, there is too much credit for Alexander without factual backing in the text, while Genghis Khan's empire is wrongfully presented as destroyers of the land. Genghis Khan's empire was a much greater empire than Alexander ever dreamed off. It was Genghis who set foundation to present day mail system with his network of guarded posts and very endurant horses. Mongols supported merchants and trade! Get your facts straight in other words.

Clever! Imaginative! Entertaining! The author artfully makes us feel as though we are a merchant traveling along the Silk Road--an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea--with her treasure trove of easy-to-follow text, maps, pictures, definitions, trivia, foreign words, time charts, etc. 9-12 year olds will love this. Congratulations to Kathy Ceceri for gifting a book that allows students to take a field trip that doesn't have to leave the classroom to be fun!

I believe if I had purchased a physical copy of the book it would have served as a better resource. Buying it for my Kindle meant instant access but became a pain trying to locate items for class. The book contains great projects; my students did the Gordian Knot (confusing), the passport, the journal, yurt, butterfly and carpets. I wanted to try as many activities as possible; some were not explained enough or not enough pictures to make it easily doable (Gordian Knot). I could not provide the students pictures of how to make the yurt, they would not copy.Again, I think it would be more useful in hard copy rather than digital.

I'd recommend this book for people who are interested in history. I personally like the projects that Kathryn Ceceri did. Other than that I didn't like the book. It was very boring. I think she could've done a better job