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Synopsis
"A Day in the Life" series follows a fictional character who provides the focus for a detailed look at how people dressed, ate, worked, travelled and survived in different eras. It combines fictional narrative, factual text and quotes to enhance literacy skills. The series aims to encourage readers to consider concepts of time, chronology, biography and diary.
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Writing fact and fiction
What I really liked about writing for this series (I've also written "A Day in the Life of a Roman Centurion") was the chance to combine an element of fiction with some sound historical facts.
The first problem was choosing a credible identity for the street-seller child character. I called her Joss, after my great-aunt Joss, who would have been a contemporary of my character (though not a street-seller!) I though the name was not too obviously feminine, so it might help boys to identify with her.
Henry Mayhew's "London Labour and London Poor" provided a wonderful source of information about the lives of working people in Victorian London. It also yielded some very memorable quotes which I hope will appeal to an 8 - 12 year-old readership.
The choice of the funeral as a topic for one spread may seem a little odd in a children's book. But my recent experience of setting up an exhibition at the Norfolk Rural Life Museum on "Life and Death in the Workhouse" (sponsored by a local firm of funeral directors!) showed me how fascinated children were to learn about this sombre but central aspect of Victorian life.
Anyway, I hope that readers - parents, librarians, and especially the children themselves - will find the book entertaining and informative as well as useful background for Key Stage 2 history.
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Spend the day with a historical figure and discover how people lived in different eras.
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- PublisherWayland
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0750226412
- ISBN 13 9780750226417
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
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