Product details
- ISBN 9781408133194
- Weight: 140g
- Dimensions: 194 x 278mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2011
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 9-11
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The story of a tiny settlement that grew up on a muddy river bank 2000
years ago to become one of the world's greatest capital cities.
Fully revised and updated for 2011, The Story of
London features the famous people and dramatic events - battles, plagues, fires
and bombings - that have shaped the city, as well as the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games.
Also included are introductions to
the most important social and cultural institutions that influence Londoners'
lives. Facts, fun quizzes and cartoons are presented in such a way as to bring
famous events to life and cut-away drawings reveal London's greatest and
best-known buildings, such as the Tower of London, Houses of Parliament and St
Paul's Cathedral.
Jacqui Bailey has spent a lot of her adult life
working with children's books. She has been an editor and publisher of
everything from picture books to encyclopedias, but mostly enjoys finding out
amazing bits of information and then writing about them. She is an award-winning author with more than 20 children's
information books to her name, including A Cartoon History of the Earth
series.
Jacqui lives in London - and thinks it is the best
city in the world.
