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Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore have written numerous titles including the Mad Myths in Puffin’s Surfer series for older, reluctant readers; Playscripts for OUP and contemporary teenage novels for Piccadilly Press. As well as being authors, they both teach English and Drama in Leicester. Steve Barlow in a further education college and Steve Skidmore in a secondary community school .
The eighth Lost Diary – factually accurate, fictionally funny! William Shakespeare himself needs no introduction, but not everyone knows the secrets of his success!
How could a man so busy with life in Elizabethan England have had time to write all those plays and poems? Enter stage right, Egbert Noah Bacon – one of his writing group who, quill in hand, gives us a new perspective on the Bard himself and of a fascinating period of English history:
Includes Spanish Armada, Gunpowder Plot, Queen Elizabeth First’s life… and death… and successor. The Plague, the invention of the lavatory and, of course, the building and burning of the Globe Theatre.
- 100 b/w illus
• Links with history KS2 National Curriculum History – Shakespeare features in the Elizabethans, a compulsory period of study. Also for KS3 English.
• Humour and History from a unique perspective
• LITERACY HOUR Year 6 Term 1 Non-Fiction Diaries/anecdotes/biography
THE LOST DIARY SERIES:
Henry VIII’s Executioner
Erik Bloodaxe, Viking Warrior
Julius Caesar’s Slave
Queen Victoria’s Undermaid
Tutankhamun’s Mummy
Hercules’ Personal Trainer
Montezuma’s Soothsayer
Shakespeare’s Ghostwriter
Leonardo’s Paint Mixer
Robin Hood’s Money Man [Oct]
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore have written numerous titles including the Mad Myths in Puffin’s Surfer series for older, reluctant readers; Playscripts for OUP and contemporary teenage novels for Piccadilly Press. As well as being authors, they both teach English and Drama in Leicester. Steve Barlow in a further education college and Steve Skidmore in a secondary community school .