Slimy Stuarts
Horrible Histories (Original) Series
Author: Terry Deary
Illustrator: Martin Brown
Book 8 in the Horrible Histories (Original) series
Pages: 144
Published: 1996
Age: 8+
I bet you’ve never even heard of the Stuarts. They don’t sound very terrible, do they? But you’ll soon change your mind once you hear the sickening story which started when gibbering James I took the throne. Now you can find out…
• Why some slimy Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas
• Which king picked his nose and never washed his hands
• Why people wore fish on their feet (bleeugh!)
Plus there are the dreadful deeds of the revolting Roundheads, the gruesome truth about ghastly Guy Fawkes, tragic tales of women accused of witchcraft, and the ever-present threat of the perilous plague! The Stuarts have never been so sickening!
About the Horrible Histories (Original) Series
Books in series order
- 1.Awesome Egyptians(1993)
- 2.Terrible Tudors(1993)
- 3.Blitzed Brits(1994)
- 4.Vicious Vikings(1994)
- 5.Vile Victorians(1994)
- 6.Groovy Greeks(1996)
- 7.Measly Middle Ages(1996)
- 8.Slimy Stuarts(1996)
- 9.Angry Aztecs(1997)
- 10.Awful Egyptians(1997)
- 11.Cut Throat Celts(1997)
- 12.Frightful First World War(1998)
- 13.Gorgeous Georgians(1998)
- 14.Terrifying Tudors(1998)
- 15.Rotten Romans(1999)
- 16.Savage Stone Age(1999)
- 17.Woeful Second World War(1999)
- 18.Incredible Incas(2000)
- 19.Smashing Saxons(2000)
- 20.Stormin' Normans(2001)
- 21.Barmy British Empire(2002)
- 22.Ruthless Romans(2003)
- 23.Villianous Victorians(2004)
Reading age: 8+ years
Horrible Histories are history books with the guts left in! These illustrated accounts present the unusual, gory, and unpleasant facts of history with tongue-in-cheek humour guaranteed to appeal to children.