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Synopsis
This is the first title in a non-fiction series based on "fly-on-the-wall" reporting. Learn all about the Roman way of life as we go on patrol with Vespian's centurions, on the toilet with Titus and Marcus and to battle with Felix. Complete with pages blotted with squashed insects, olive oil and fingerprints, this is a book that should have the ancient Romans springing from its pages.
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About the Author
Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom have won many awards for their picture information books, including the Smarties Silver Award and the English Association Award. Their books for Frances Lincoln include The Beatles, Charles Dickens: Scenes from an Extraordinary Life, What Mr Darwin Saw, Tail-End Charlie, Taff in the WAAF, The Secrets of Stonehenge, Dino-Dinners, Woolly Mammoth, the Fly on the Wall series: Roman Fort, Viking Longship, Pharaoh's Egypt and Greek Hero, and Nature Adventures. They have four sons, and divide their time between the North of England and Brita's homeland of Sweden. Find out more about their books at www.mickandbrita.com.MICK MANNING’and’BRITA GRANSTRÖM’have developed a unique approach to picture information books over the last 21 years. Sharing’the illustration between them and mixing words and pictures in inventive ways, they have won many awards, including the Smarties Silver’Award, and are five-times winners of the English Association Award. Mick fell in love with wildlife on primary school nature walks many years’ago, and has an MA in Natural History Illustration from the Royal College of Art. Brita grew up on a farm, and has an MFA from Konstfack in’Stockholm. They spend a lot of their time having both Swedish and British Wild Adventures with their four children. Their other books for Frances Lincoln include:’The Beatles;’Charles Dickens,’Scenes from an Extraordinary Life;’What’Mr Darwin Saw;’Tail-End Charlie;’Taff in the WAAF;’The Secrets of Stonehenge;’Woolly Mammoth;’and’the’Fly on the Wall’series:’Roman’Fort, Viking Longship;’Pharoah's Egypt;’Greek Hero.
From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 3-With sketchbooklike color illustrations accompanied by brief captions and factoids, this book attempts to give a glimpse of life in a British Roman fort and the surrounding countryside. Subjects include the life of a soldier, children, religion, and more, tied together by a loose story about the birthday party of a commander's wife. Factual errors make this book an unnecessary purchase. Specifically, the authors state that Romans made themselves vomit in order to eat more (incorrect and gross) and that some houses had a special room called a vomitorium specifically for that purpose (a vomitorium is a large exit in an amphitheater). These basic, easily verifiable errors should have never made it to print. Save your money.-Lynda S. Poling, Long Beach Public Library, CA
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- PublisherFrances Lincoln Childrens Books
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0711222711
- ISBN 13 9780711222717
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages40
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