Horrible Histories: 2011

Evil emperors! Beastly battles! Violent villains! Rowdy riots! They’re all in the ickiest annual around – now with noxious NEW nasty bits! Yes: the Horrible Histories annual is back yet again, all set to bust Boxing Day boredom. Filled with treacherous tyrants, brutal buccaneers, cruel kings and other murderous meanies, it’s full of foul folk you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley – but who are great to read about on a dark winter’s night. Sickening Stone Age funeral soup. Deadly Celtic druids. Bison-bashing hunters. Vile Victorian inventions. From the awesome Ancient World to the terrible 20th Century, there’s enough sickening stuff in here to make you howl with glee!

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    i think horrible histories is the most funnieset way to learn about history. I have all the books and both the 2010 annual and the 2011 one! I love the tv program to! (Much better than the books aswell!) Although im 12 years of age i love horrible histories in every way and terry deary is a brilliant author and a historian (In a sort of way!) For my birthday im getting the new books and i cant wait! Hopefully they will bring out a series three of the television program!

    6 January 2011

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    Terry Deary

    Terry is a former actor, theatre-director and Drama teacher and currently lives in County Durham. He has written over 150 books in the UK, including 44 Horrible Histories titles, and was voted the fifth most popular living children’s author in a 2005 Guardian survey.

    Awards

    Terry Deary won the 2001 Blue Peter Prize for Rotten Romans.

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    Martin Brown

    Martin Brown was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived in England for over 30 years. He lives in Dorset with family. Arriving in London in 1983, Martin got a job as a bicycle courier – without any knowledge of the capital’s geography. It was short-lived. This was followed by a role in Harrod’s toy department: achievements included caricaturing customers and successfully wrapping a full-sized rocking horse. While working at London Graphic Centre, Martin decided to pursue his dream to become a cartoonist. Having access to the contact details of every publisher helped. One of the first publishers he contacted was Scholastic who commissioned him for the Coping with… books before uniting him with Terry Deary to create the world’s bestselling children’s history series, Horrible Histories. Martin’s recent books beyond Horrible Histories include his Lesser Spotted Animal series and Nell and the Cave Bear (both also written and illustrated by him). A proponent of ‘drawing is for everyone’, Martin inspires children (and their families) across Britain at festival appearances and shows.

    Awards

    Blue Peter, Best Factual Book 2002 for Terrible Tudors

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