Publisher: Reading Riddle
Publication Date: 29th March 2024
Genre:Childrens History
Summary:
Join Captain Vlad the flea, and Master Roxton the rat, as they set sail on the Mary Rose.
This is the latest adventure in the best selling Flea in History series, and is filled with detailed factual information about life on a Tudor ship.
Vlad and his crew of scurvy rats are aboard Henry VIII’s favourite ship, the Mary Rose. They are sailing to Portsmouth to stop a French invasion, but are expecting an easy journey. That is until they discover the presence of Hatch the dog and Captain Carew’s hawk. Will they find a way to escape the danger?
The book ends with an information page about the history and a flash forward to the discovery and recovery of the Mary Rose, with her vast treasury of artefacts.
All Vlad flea books are packed full of history in the illustrations and within the story, and are a perfect way to learn whilst having fun.
Review:
Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Reading Riddle and Kate and Sam Cunningham for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
I love being able to share books with my avid listener of stories( they can't read yet) and book-loving child, and they love it when they get a new book to add to their collection. I happen to love it even more when the book we get to add teaches them about history, but that's probably because I'm a history nerd and I'd love it if they became one too lol
We really loved reading this book, we've read it a fair few times since we got it, and every time it gets my little one asking questions about the images on the page or the story I'm reading them and I love that it gets them engaged in that way. It's a lovely mix of history and getting that information across to the reader but with the added fun of it being a tale told by Captian Vlad Flea I think that mix makes the history really be taken in by children. It's always a winning way to get that information that we get told in schools in, let's face a way that can be quite dull, in a fun way that makes history come alive that little bit more.
It's a winning book in my eyes and it ended with a request from my little one to go visit the Mary Rose Museum, so they can see "the big boat" and whats more we went ahead and bought another book in the series so we can learn more from Captian Vlad!
Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Reading Riddle and Kate and Sam Cunningham for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
I love being able to share books with my avid listener of stories( they can't read yet) and book-loving child, and they love it when they get a new book to add to their collection. I happen to love it even more when the book we get to add teaches them about history, but that's probably because I'm a history nerd and I'd love it if they became one too lol
We really loved reading this book, we've read it a fair few times since we got it, and every time it gets my little one asking questions about the images on the page or the story I'm reading them and I love that it gets them engaged in that way. It's a lovely mix of history and getting that information across to the reader but with the added fun of it being a tale told by Captian Vlad Flea I think that mix makes the history really be taken in by children. It's always a winning way to get that information that we get told in schools in, let's face a way that can be quite dull, in a fun way that makes history come alive that little bit more.
It's a winning book in my eyes and it ended with a request from my little one to go visit the Mary Rose Museum, so they can see "the big boat" and whats more we went ahead and bought another book in the series so we can learn more from Captian Vlad!
Krystina xx
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