That's So Gross!: History

Description

A funny and fascinating new series from Mitch Symons - the double Blue Peter Award winning, revolting reference expert! FRIGHTFUL FACTS AND GORY STORIES . . . Top trivia about life in the past such as- Did Vikings wear horns on their helmets? How did Ancient Egyptians make their mummies? Which animals were gladiators forced to fight?

Mitchell Symons was born in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning column for the Sunday Express.

Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects than anybody on Earth * Chris Tarrant * This is just the sort of information to give children a background to history and hopefully encourage them to delve a little deeper into this fascinating subject. They will love to appal parents, friends and teachers with the gruesome facts in the book - and the illustrations are just as gruesome. * Parents in Touch (www.parentsintouch.co.uk) * Animals, creepy crawlies and the human body are tackled in a Horrible Histories way, and each book is packed with the sort of disgusting trivia that delights children under eight. -- Toby Clements * The Telegraph *