Red Storybook
5 total works
The fourth historical time-slip for younger readers from Karen Wallace. Cleopatra is helped in her wooing of Mark Anthony by two young friends from another time and place! A time-slip novel for confident young readers. Cleopatra, who ruled Egypt for more than twenty years, was renowned for using her beauty to attract powerful men. Determined to trap Mark Anthony, Cleopatra sees the arrival of two young time-slip travellers as a gift from the gods particularly since they arrive wrapped up in a carpet...embroidered with scenes from Ancient Egypt! And, having been invited to a a fancy-dress party back at home, whom better for the contemporary children to seek expert advice from, than Cleopatra -- the queen of fancy dresses! . Mixups, mayhem and history, for the core young storybook readership of 7 -- 9 year olds.
Time-slip novel as two children go back in time to Queen Victoria's home at Windsor Castle. When Amanda and Clare climb into a Victorian swingboat at Castleton Fair, they do not expect to climb out at Windsor Castle in the Year 1854. They make two unexpected friends -- two of Queen Victoria's daughters --a nd then have the terrifying experience of meeting the Queen herself, at a family banquet -- suitabley dressed for the occasion by the two Victorian young ladies. Through a witty text, readers will learn much about Victorian manners and customs...and enjoy an exciting romantic adventure too.
An historical time-slip adventure for younger readers - a maze, a shoe, and England's most famous king. "I am King Henry the Eighth of England!" roared the man..."Fetch me my shoes!" When Catherine finds a golden box in the maze at Hampton Court, little does she realise that it contains a shoe belonging to none other than King Henry the Eighth of England. Even more surprisingly, the search for this shoe leads a larger-than-life monarch from Tudor times to twentieth-century England, and to Catherine's house!
