Imprint: Red Fox
Published: 07/06/2012
ISBN: 9781862305199
Length: 128 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm
Weight: 96g
RRP: £6.99
Marcus is a young baker in Ancient Rome, living with his family in the shadow of the murderous Emperor Littleboots. When a slave boy shoves the reins of a sleek, beautiful horse into Marcus's hands seconds before he is killed by a soldier, Marcus knows he's in danger - because the horse is Incitatus, the Emperor's most prized and powerful animal.
Will Marcus find a way to keep Incitatus hidden? Are the rumours of Littleboots's death true - or is it all a trick? And how can Marcus save himself, and his family?
A fast-paced adventure from the winner of both the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the 2005 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
Imprint: Red Fox
Published: 07/06/2012
ISBN: 9781862305199
Length: 128 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm
Weight: 96g
RRP: £6.99
This is a lovely book, with fine line drawings, the sort you'd be happy to see a boy of eight reading, and I hope it is the beginning of a series
Told in beautiful clear prose, this short novel does not try to emulate the historical fiction published in the Antelope and Gazelle series of 1960s-1980s by such authors as Rosemary Sutcliff, but gives the reader a glimpse of a past era in a different, humorous way