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Spend the day with a historical figure and discover how people lived in different eras.
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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.
About the Author:
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.
Richard Wood is a Cambridge history graduate and a former secondary school English and History teacher. He is an Education Officer with the Norfolk Museums Services at the Castle Museum, Norwich. He lives with his wife Sara who is a trained journalist and who now writes freelance.
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- PublisherWayland
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0750255668
- ISBN 13 9780750255660
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
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