- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (6 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199107653
- ISBN-13: 978-0199107650
- Product Dimensions: 34.6 x 24.4 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 650,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazingly detailed pictures
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New master work by worldwide bestselling illustrator Stephen Biesty. The scene is Rome in AD 128. Join up with Marcus Cotta and his 9-year-old son Titus as they spend a festival day together in Rome. Each picture shows in extraordinary detail the everyday scenes and major monuments of the imperial city. Numerous cutaways enable the reader to look into the buildings, to see what the people are doing and how the buildings are constructed. Travel through Rome in one day and see what life was really like in ancient times. BLThe lavish illustrations include: a wild animal show at the Colosseum (teaming with 50,000 spectators); horse racing at the Circus Maximus; bathing at the Baths of Trajan; festival day at the Temple.
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Format:Hardcover
Excellent book for teaching: my class of Y6 pupils love the pictures and the details.
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Absolutely one of Biesty's best
16 Oct 2003
Format:Hardcover
Lots of parents will be familiar with Stephen Biesty's "Cross-Sections" series, in which he provides wonderfully detailed cutaway drawings of famous old buildings and the like (e.g., ocean liners, spaceships, cathedrals, etc.). I really think this is one of the best of the series, too.
Previously our favorite was "Stephen Biesty's Man-of-War," which detailed life on a Napoleonic-era battleship. That one provided such good information that even an adult reading an old Horatio Hornblower novel could use it as a reference book.
Likewise, "Rome" depicts the main buildings and neighborhoods of Rome, maintaining a narrative about a young boy of noble family, Titus, as he investigates his native city.
An absolute must for any child or adult interested in ancient history or trying to become interested!
Really Cool for the right kind of reader
11 Jan 2012
Format:Paperback
This is a really great book for the right kind of reader... the kind of kid who likes diagrams with captions, or comic books, or pages with lots of detail. A kid who likes MacCaulay's books on City or Castle. "How Things Work" or DK, or Usborne spreads with lots of text boxes to read. This one ranks right up there with tons of detail on different Roman structures--house, temple, Colosseum, etc. And not just engineering detail, but social-economic tidbits too.
So if you have one of those kids who won't read a chapter book but can spend hours looking at tidbits in a manual or picture, this will be right up their alley.
So if you have one of those kids who won't read a chapter book but can spend hours looking at tidbits in a manual or picture, this will be right up their alley.
History and fun!
29 Oct 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Our kids love to look through these books to see if they can find the toilet in each picture! We talk about the pictures and they (we) learn things without realizing it!
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