Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Terrifying Tudors are ready to uncover, including who invited Queen Lizzie to visit his brand new toilet and what you get when you sew the front of a chicken to the back of a pig. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Measly Middle Ages are ready to uncover, including why chickens had their bottoms shaved, a genuine jester's joke and what ten-year-old treacle was used for. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another g ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the most horrible facts about the Gorgeous Georgians ready for readers to uncover, including their sneaky schemes for hiding personal hygiene problems and the schoolchildren who went to war with their teachers. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Vile Victorians are ready to uncover, including the murderers who wouldn't hang, when the first public loo was flushed and how stag hunting took place in Paddington Station. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit wi ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts
Kill or Cure takes a good look at surgeons and healers, covering early surgical practices and operations including a very famous patient Louis X!V and his successful albeit excruciating operation in his bottom region! Through to the start of early anaesthesia...what a relief that must have been!
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
History with the nasty bits left in! 'The Awful Egyptians' takes you back to the awfully ancient time when pharaohs were phoul, servants suffered and everyone believed in an awesome afterlife. Want to know why people worshipped a dung beetle? Which phunny pharaoh married her grandfather? What the 'Shep ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the most horrible facts about the Groovy Greeks ready for readers to uncover, including why girls ran about naked pretending to be bears, who had the world's first flushing toilet and why dedicated doctors tasted their patients' ear wax. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestsell ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Rotten Romans are ready to uncover, including what Roman soldiers wore under their kilts and how ancient Britons got their hair nice and spiky. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of T ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts
This is a brilliant book packed with amazing facts and terrific trivia about things that kids have done when they are eight from writing novels and symphonies to climbing mountains and recording hit records. Did you know? By the time you are 8 you will have: taken 67,159,993 breaths; blinked 52,851,994 ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Wow! | Reading Level: 5+
Wow! Pirates is the third book in the series, following on from Wow! Animals and Wow! Human Body. It is full of extraordinary facts. Find out about the biggest treasure hauls, the worst pirate punishments, the most powerful female pirate - Zheng Yi Sao, and much more! This is a lively, fun book that is ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts
Ever wondered why we burp? What a wotsit is? Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs? Why vomit always contains carrots? And why DO farts smell like rotten eggs? Mitchell Symons has the answers, told in his brilliantly witty trademark style.
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: What They Don't Tell You About
Did you know that Adolf Hilter wasn't, in fact, German? The Second World War brought horror and heartache to millions of people all over the globe, and it turned everyday living upside down too. Any history book will give you the boring facts THEY think you should know, but only this one will tell you w ...Show more
