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Horrible Histories: Angry Aztecs (Classic Edition) Award-winning team by Terry Deary (author) and Martin Brown (illustrator) (UK edition)

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Powerful priests, weird warriors, and cunning Conquistadors… the angry Aztecs knew how to make history exciting! From their gruesome gods to the horrible habit of drinking live toads in wine, and from a very deadly ball game to the terrible temples where freaky Aztec priests ripped out human hearts, this is history with extra nasty bits left in!

Product Details

Series

Horrible Histories

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407104256

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

June 2nd, 2008

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  • 144 pages

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Author/Illustrator

Terry Deary

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Terry Deary was born in Sunderland in 1946 and currently lives in County Durham. Terry is a former actor, theatre-director and Drama teacher. He spends his time writing and directing for his television production company, managing his website, terry-deary.com, and touring his Horrible Histories exhibition. Terry is the author of 116 books in the UK and over 250 more worldwide, mainly for children and teenagers, including the popular non-fiction series Horrible Histories. Horrible Histories were launched in 1993 and are now sold in 28 languages from Russia to Brazil, Scandinavia to China.

In 2003, Horrible Histories celebrates its 10th Anniversary!

In 1996 Terry was the best selling British children’s author with 5 of his books in the top ten best-sellers of the year (Waterstones Book Shop tables). In August 1997 he was still leading the way with thirteen titles in the top forty. (Bookseller listings). In 1999, The Daily Telegraph recorded that he outsold Enid Blyton by four to one and a Libraries survey made him the most-borrowed author of non-fiction in Britain – adult and children’s books. Terry currently holds 8 out of the 10 slots for ‘Most Borrowed Children’s Non-Fiction’ authors in the Public Lending Rights annual survey covering July 1998-June 1999. In November 1999 Books for Keeps magazine readers voted him “The outstanding children’s non-fiction author of the 20th Century”.

Terry’s district council have awarded Terry an “oscar” as one of their top citizens and Sunderland University have awarded Terry an Honorary Doctorate in Education (HonDEd) which was awarded in July 2000.

In early 1998, the Top Ten series was launched with two titles written by Terry, Top Ten Shakespeare Stories and Top Ten Greek Legends.

Terry’s latest additions to the Horrible Histories series are the Horrible Histories Special: France and Cruel Crimes and Painful Punishment. And if Horrible Histories wasn’t keeping him busy enough Terry has also contributed a range of titles to the True Stories series including True Mystery Stories and True Horror Stories.

The Horrible Histories exhibition is up and running in museums around Britain until 2003. He has also just set up a television production company and is negotiating to make a series of audio tapes and writing radio scripts for BBC World Service.

“If you haven’t come across ‘Horrible Histories’ before you’ve missed a true publishing phenomenon – Terry Deary seems to have invented a whole new genre with his series of books looking at history in an entirely different way.” Books Magazine, July 96

“I do not like reading very much and my Mum is pleased that I have found some books I like so much that I read them without being asked!” Fan letter from 10-year-old boy

For more information why not visit www.terry-deary.com or join his fan club?

Martin Brown

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Martin Brown was born in Australia but currently lives in Dorset. In 1993, he illustrated the first of the HORRIBLE HISTORIES, and has now contributed to more than 60 titles in the series.

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  1. AngelofDeath
    on 9 March 2014

    Very funny, history with the nasty bits left in, lol. Everyone should read it.

  2. Venera2
    on 4 March 2014

    best way to learn history!

    5out of 5

  3. preciousone
    on 9 March 2013

    A good book!

    5out of 5

  4. ninjastickman
    on 6 March 2013

    Terry Deary has made a brilliant, educational set of books! They teach you all about how the people of the past live! I would recommend an age range of 8-12 for this book

    5out of 5

  5. ellie-melay27
    on 6 March 2013

    a good and funny way to learn history, i have all of the books and i really enjoy all the different series! i dont recommend it for squeamish people because it’s quite gory

  6. Sherlock25
    on 6 March 2013

    A great book if you are learning about Aztecs at school

  7. bugzy72
    on 6 March 2013

    its a good book

  8. catlover96
    on 6 March 2013

    Horrible Histories are by FAR the funniest way to learn about history. Pretty awesome!

  9. TwilightTeamEdward
    on 4 March 2013

    this book is really gruesome and its not for the screamish.

  10. salimisra
    on 7 March 2012

    didnt really like this book, it was very wierd but i lernt a lot but i dont think it would be any use to me in any way but was was quiet good, not saying that it was rubbish but its just not for me

    2out of 5

  11. Funkyboy9
    on 3 March 2011

    1ST Horrible history I read. Got me hooked.

    4out of 5