The Time-Travellers' Handbook
How to be the Best in Time and Space
Published on 19. March 2009
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-906082-40-6 (ISBN)
Description
Everything you ever needed to know about surviving any time, any place, anywhere - whether it is during the Jurassic age or dark ages to the Victorian era. Packed full of fascinating historical facts, The Time-Travellers' Handbook is educational as well as entertaining. Covering all the different aspects of life in a different age, cookery, games and sporting skills and surviving diseases. Children can hunt a hairy mammoth, cross swords with the samurai, make an axe stone-age style, write like an Egyptian, learn how to survive the Blitz, graduate from gladiator school, and much more.
Reviews / Votes
Children will never complain that history is boring again! By using The Time-Travelers' Handbook and a little bit of imagination, they can travel through time and space * Parent Talk *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 8 to 12 years
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
260 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906082-40-6 (9781906082406)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Lottie Stride has written many books for children, including The Time Travellers' Handbook, Write Every Time and Meerkat Mischief. She lives in London with her three lovely children. She enjoys walking on beaches, eating potatoes, and listening to Beethoven. If she could choose one superpower she would fly through time. Lottie Stride has written many books for children, including The Time Travellers' Handbook, Write Every Time and Meerkat Mischief. She lives in London with her three lovely children. She enjoys walking on beaches, eating potatoes, and listening to Beethoven. If she could choose one superpower she would fly through time.
Content
Hunt a hairy mammoth; Cross swords with the samurai; Make an axe stone-age style; Write like an Egyptian; Survive the Blitz; Graduate from gladiator school; Tackle a tyrannosaurus; Survive the Black Death; Be a canny court jester; Roast a rodent with a Roman; Sweep a Victorian chimney; Beat the Spanish Armada; Make an Egyptian Mummy.