5 reviews for Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors (English Edition)

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  marie kinahan10/09/2024

  Loved the stories about the Tudors. Seemed to captivate my nephew as he respected so much of what he read. He’s a Horrible Histories fan now .

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  Andreea10/09/2024

  This book shows us that history can be presented in an interactive way – with questions and facts that make you think – and also in a funny way, because many things our ancestors did seem very curious to us today. A peculiar example is the fact that Queen Elisabeth I bathed only 4 times a year and she was even ‘cleaner’ than King Luis XIV, who bathed only 3 times a year,The book has also groase stuff, but hey, this is much true and plausible than what I learned at school. Actually, it was less groase than I thought, because I watched the series before and the peculiarities became stuck in my brain.Even if this is a children’s book, it has very interesting information not found in the history books. I read about the two hypothesis regarding Christopher Marlowe, and who knows, maybe he is the true genius behind the Shakespearean masterpieces.

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  shopping queen10/09/2024

  great customer service – friendly and polite staff, fast response via emails and good policy with returns/cancellations of orders etc.

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  k8410/09/2024

  　歴史の教科書ではないにしろ、副読本にでも使いそうな本です。しかし、歴史に興味がない生徒が読みたくなるような工夫がいっぱいで、悪い意味の教科書風なところはない。歴史の授業は時にHorribleになる。Horribly boring, horribly confusing, horribly unfair。でも、この本ならhorribly interestingという風に最初に書いてあります。　テューダー朝に関してはずいぶんと本を読みましたが、時代について体系的に書いたものは読んでいなかったので、そういう整理ができて非常に有意義でした。もちろん、全く知らない人用に書いてあるので、テューダー朝がいつでどの国かもわからなくても大丈夫です。　一コマ漫画があちこちにあって、覚えにくそうなことは韻を踏んだ文章で整理してあって、歴史以外の面でも面白い。テューダー王朝のことだけでなく、「イギリスの子どもは先生にこんな風に話すんだ」とか、現代もわかります。全体に風刺が効いてシニカルで、大人の方が楽しめる面も多いかもしれません。

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  Lucy read10/09/2024

  Perfect for primary year 5 curriculum my son liked it so much he’s stated reading it already he doesn’t start year 5 until September!