Roman Fort (Fly on the Wall) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847806252 ISBN 13: 9781847806253

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2015

Synopsis

Be a fly on the wall in the time of the Romans. Patrol with a windswept centurion, eavesdrop on Roman nobles - Candidus and Flavinus - in the smelly toilets and dine at a tasty banquet.

These pages are packed full of up-to-date information about the world of the Romans from the latest archaeological discoveries. With drawings, notes, squashed insects and messy fingerprints, this book shows you history as it really happened!

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About the Author

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.

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1847806252
• ISBN 13: 9781847806253
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Manning Mick, Granstrom Brita