Begin a voyage of discovery with world-famous explorers! Discover everything you need to know about explorers with this brilliant book. One hundred facts, fantastic illustrations, and hilarious cartoons reveal all aspects of exploration, while fun quizzes test your knowledge.
From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, Terry Deary introduces the biggest baddies in history and explains how they tortured and terrified their way to the top.
This title presents fifty foul people from history - personally selected by His Dearyness for their beastly behaviour. It is split into ten sections including: Awful Assassins, Rotten Rebels, Wicked Women, Crazy Criminals, Ruthless Rulers, etc. Each section follows a different format - stories, newspaper articles, diary entries, fact files and so on.
A brilliant new book which features all of the best bits from 20 years of "Horrible Histories" titles, with the text specially chosen by Terry Deary and accompanied by Martin Brown's hilarious illustrations. To further celebrate the 20th anniversary of the brand, the Imperial War Museum is running a "Horrible Histories" exhibition during the Summer of 2013, with series 5 of the award-winning TV…
Deadly Days in History is the most horrible Horrible Histories book yet. Terry Deary and Martin Brown take you on a whirlwind tour through the most dreadful, disastrous and deadly days in the whole of horrible history, from the grim Great Fire of Rome to the vile St Valentine's Day Massacre, leaving the gory bits in (and the boring bits out).
Meet some of history's most illustrious and interesting characters in this book that visits key moments of the past from around the world. When young Augustus falls asleep in history class, Professor Tempo decides to teach him a lesson and show him that history isn't boring at all! She hands him a magic diary, all he needs to do is write the time and place to travel there. Together they head…