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Discover what life was really like for kids in the past in this brilliantly funny introduction to the Tudor period. Do you know what a 'gong farmer' did? (And no, they didn't plant gongs.) Or why you might have gone to the barber for a toothache? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this witty and informative guide to the Tudors by award-winning author Chae Strathie, read by the author himself and Nneka Okoye. Packed with historical facts about Tudor kings and queens, clothes, schools, food, entertainment and more!

Discover what life was really like for kids in the past in this brilliantly funny introduction to ancient Greece. Have you ever wondered what kind of games kids in ancient Greece liked to play? Famous myths and legends they would have known? Or what they learned at school? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this witty and informative guide to the ancient Greeks. Written in accessible, conversational text by award-winning author Chae Strathie, read by the author himself and Nneka Okoye.

Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion: And Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus is a celebration of Paul Binders life in and around the circus. Drawing on 35 years with the show he created, the Big Apple Circus founder and founding Artistic Director invites us inside the fence every kid peers through for an intimate look at the uncommon life of circus artists, their animal partners, and the roustabouts who spend their days in a world that is both close-knit and international, high-minded and low comedy, death-defying and ludicrous.