Off With Their Heads! by Martin Oliver

Off With Their Heads! by Martin Oliver

Off With Their Heads, the follow-up to the bestselling Thirty Days Has September, is bursting with the best bits from British history. This book will inspire a love of history that will last a lifetime and is a lovely gift from parent to child to help all school children get to grips with British history.
Contents include:
• Rules to remember the rulers of Britain
• Clue-up on the cruel fate of all six of Henry VIII's wives
• Become an expert on the inventions of the Industrial Revolution
• Be wise to the bloody battles of the Hundred Years War
• Swat-up on stories of the Saxons' successes
• Get to grips with the gunpowder plot
• Understand the Easter Uprising
• Roam about in Roman Britain
• What was the War of the Roses?
• Learn a poem to understand the events leading up to WW1

The best way to teach history to children is by being honest about the gory lusts of our ancestors.. unlike the Horrible Histories series, this one book gives us all the important bits of British history boiled down to palatable chunks... and it's perfectly illustrated. I'd have loved this when I was younger * Waterstones Books Quarterly *
In just 125 pages you will zoom through time, from the Ice Age to today * Sunday Express *

Since starting his career as an author, Martin Oliver has written over 20 books for children covering subjects as wide-ranging as pirates, pharaohs and puzzle adventures. He's also written two titles in the popular Knowledge series, Dead Dinosaurs and Groovy Movies (Scholastic Publishing) Martin lives in Teddington, near London, with his wife, Andrea, and their two daughters, Katie and Isabelle. The Boys Book 2 was his first title for Buster books. Andrew Pinder lives in Mallorca and works as an illustrator, painter and muralist. He has had numerous one-man exhibitions in Mallorca and has work in various public and private collections. He has illustrated many children's books, in Catalan, Spanish and English. For Buster Books, Andrew has illustrated the 'Laugh-a-lot' joke series and the Dorkius Maximus books, as well as Dinosaur Doodles and other titles in MOM's bestselling Doodle series.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781906082727
ISBN 10	1906082723
Title	Off With Their Heads!
Author	Martin Oliver
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Year published	2009-10-01
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.