- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Andersen; illustrated edition edition (25 Oct 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1842700243
- ISBN-13: 978-1842700242
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 22 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 763,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mr Benn visits a costume shop, where by choosing a costume and going through a special door, he can travel to the era represented by the costume. Mr. Benn decides that he likes the Romans, because they made good roads - so he chooses the Roman costume, which is that of a gladiator. Suddenly, as if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared...and he is transported to ancient Rome. But he has forgotten that gladiators fought each other. The Emperor is inspecting the road building, and when he sees Mr Benn, he has him carried off to the arena. The worried gladiators there explain that they must fight, even though fighting is wrong. Will it be thumbs down for the alternative entertainment Mr Benn proposes? Four Mr Benn books were published in the 1980s.
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‘Thumbs up for Mr Benn’ T.E.S. ‘Great for those almost ready for novels, and everyone else!’ Primary Times
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Format:Hardcover
Learning about time-travel in school. This was a different way of tackling the subject and made it fun for the children. Children enjoyed this book and were interested in different Mr Benn books.
Format:Paperback
Mr Benn is another iconic Seventies TV character and his fame deservedly continues with this story that faithfully reproduces the style and feel of the original series. In case you didn't know, Mr Benn is a very ordinary man who lives on a very ordinary street, but a man who has a secret; when he goes to the costume shop on his street he not only dresses as a character but he enters that character's world for a day. This leads to all manner of fantastical adventures where he has a go at being a balloonist, a conjuror, an astronaut and a king, amongst others.
In this book Mr Benn becomes a gladiator for a day and is caught up in an adventure where he has to find an alternative to fighting in order to survive. The story is great but it was the nostalgia-inducing drawings that really sold this book to me.
In this book Mr Benn becomes a gladiator for a day and is caught up in an adventure where he has to find an alternative to fighting in order to survive. The story is great but it was the nostalgia-inducing drawings that really sold this book to me.
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