Introducing Tony Robinson

Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders

Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining and gory bits about the Romans, Egyptians, Greeks and the British

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Join me (Tony Robinson) the Curiosity Crew and Nits the dog as we gallop headlong through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, smelly and disgusting bits! It's history but not as you know it!

Find out why Egyptian tomb raiding was a bad idea, why Ancient Egyptians loved cats and why the Romans washed their togas in wee (bleurgh!) and much much more . . .

But more importantly you can play the very awesome Weird World of Wonders game!

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JOKES


nits the dogKnock knock!
Who’s there?
Plato.
Plato who?
Plato Greek salad, please!
 
How do we know Archimedes was greedy?
Because he spent so much time thinking about pi.
 
Who was Britain’s most famous duck?
Sir Francis Drake



FACT OF THE WEEK


The word ‘tragedy’ means ‘goat song’ in Greek. Legend says that the first actor, Thespis, won a goat as his prize for coming first in a talent show.


NEWS AND EVENTS


Upcoming events

Watch Tony Robinson on Authors Live on Thursday 6th June 2013 11am. Aimed at P3-7 or children aged 7-12, this is a great way to interact with the author - and you can do it from your classroom. Click to register and find out how it works here.

From the reviews

‘What I didn’t expect was how funny this book would be. It’s like a cross between a history lesson and a cartoon strip, with brilliant facts written in a way that made me laugh.’ -Daily Record

‘Tony Robinson brings the magnificent Roman world alive. From the famous story of the twins Romulus and Remus, who founded the city after having been brought up by a she-wolf, to the collapse of the mighty empire despite the power of Rome’s huge army, questions about all the good – and the bad  - things about Rome are explored.’ -LoveReading4Kids

‘I really enjoyed the book, it was really really good. It had lots of really good pictures, illustrations, diagrams and photographs – some of them had funny captions.’ -EduBuzz