History You Wouldn't Want To Collection
You Wouldn't Want To Be A Mammoth Hunter! Revised Edition
Price | £6.99 |
Price | £7.99 |
It's August 1914. You are 16-year-old Tommy Atkins, living in London. Set against a backdrop of the war just broken out in Europe, find out what your life was like after joining up and being sent to the trenches. From sharing your bed with rats and lice to a diet of bully beef, bread and biscuits, discover why you really wouldn't want to be a soldier living in a trench during World War One. Handy hints include how to protect your feet from trenchfoot, how to use pigeons as spies, and how to detect enemy tunnelling beneath your trench.
A published author of over eighty books, mainly for children and young adults, Alex lives in Southgate, North London, with his wife and two children.
David Antram was born in Brighton, England, in 1958. He studied at Eastbourne College of Art and then worked in advertising for 15 years before becoming a full-time illustrator.
He has since illustrated well over 100 titles, mainly for children and young adults, including around 60 in the bestselling 'You Wouldn't Want to Be' series.
Teachers' notes and children's activity sheets to be used with the book, and a short play by John Townsend that can be performed in the classroom. The original book is written by Alex Woolf and illustrated by David Antram.