You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Gladiator!: Gory Things You'd Rather Not Know by John Malam and David Salariya.
An entertaining, historically solid book - for 4th graders and over
Originally published in 2001 by Franklin Watts.
Illustrated by David Antram.
You Wouldn,t Want to Be a Roman Gladiator! is entertaining and it contains solid, accurate history presented in a visually interesting format.
While I've been looking a few of the books from this series for my own personal entertainment, my almost 4th grade daughter has been sneaking them out of the stack and reading them without any encouragement from me. Imagine! Kids surreptitiously reading history!
The book details the life of a gladiator that is captured as a slave in battle in Gaul. We follow him to his sale in the market and what kind of jobs he might have been sent to (in the mines, as a galley slave, on the farm, etc.) The slave is sent to gladiator school and we learn about their training, what they ate, the different types of gladiators and how they were punished. We learn about different types of gladiator fights and how gladiator fights were generally organized.
Well done. It should be a welcome part of any Rome unit from 4th grade and up.
I rate this book 5 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Gladiator!: Gory Things You'd Rather Not Know.
Reviewed June 14, 2009.
While I've been looking a few of the books from this series for my own personal entertainment, my almost 4th grade daughter has been sneaking them out of the stack and reading them without any encouragement from me. Imagine! Kids surreptitiously reading history!
The book details the life of a gladiator that is captured as a slave in battle in Gaul. We follow him to his sale in the market and what kind of jobs he might have been sent to (in the mines, as a galley slave, on the farm, etc.) The slave is sent to gladiator school and we learn about their training, what they ate, the different types of gladiators and how they were punished. We learn about different types of gladiator fights and how gladiator fights were generally organized.
Well done. It should be a welcome part of any Rome unit from 4th grade and up.
I rate this book 5 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Gladiator!: Gory Things You'd Rather Not Know.
Reviewed June 14, 2009.
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