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Product details
- ISBN 9780746068328
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 136 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2006
- Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A vivid retelling of a major historical catastrophe written in an engaging, narrative style with direct speech and speech bubbles. Dramatic illustrations, photos or maps on every page and Internet links to fun websites via the Usborne Quicklinks Website. The Usborne Reading has been developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University.
Chapters in this book include:
- A warning
- Vesuvius comes alive
- The spirit of a hero
- Panic under Vesuvius
- 1860: a city rediscovered
Karen Ball writes at Did You Make That, an international and award-shortlisted sewing blog that has been featured in The Guardian, The Bookseller, Sewing World, Love Sewing and Sew magazines. Karen has more than 25 years' experience in publishing and is author of over 20 children's books. She runs the publishing consultancy, Speckled Pen, and was nominated as a The Bookseller Rising Star 2017.
