Customer Reviews
HOT OFF THE PRESS - REPRINTED EDITION with a NEW COVER - By: Amazon Reviewer, 22 Oct 2007 
`The Stormin' Normans is bulging with fascinating facts about Bill the Conqueror & his bully-boys who battled at Hastings, stormed around Europe & joined the crummy Crusades.
Want to know:-
why Norman knights slept with a dolly?
which pirate hung up his eye-patch & became a saint?
why Crusader ships were defended with barrels of pee?
Read on for hair-raising tales of limb-chopping doctors & terribly-tortured saints.
Get top tips on how to avoid a poisonous plot & find out what really happenedin 1066!
History has never been so horrible!'
A witty, colourful cover opens to 127 pages, split over 14 chapters:-
Timeline
Big bad Bill
Unlikely legends
1066 & all of this
Live like a Norman
Terrific tales
Norman wisdom
Little villains
Miserable monarchs
Norman nastiness
Norman Italy
Crazy crusaders
Mischievous monks
Norman quiz
with an introduction & an epilogue.
Written with the typical Deary humour.
`The Stormin' Normans is bulging with fascinating facts..... - By: Amazon Reviewer, 20 Mar 2007 ...about Bill the Conqueror & his bully-boys who battled at Hastings, stormed around Europe & joined the crummy Crusades.
Want to know:-
why Norman knights slept with a dolly?
which pirate hung up his eye-patch & became a saint?
why Crusader ships were defended with barrels of pee?
Read on for hair-raising tales of limb-chopping doctors & terribly-tortured saints.
Get top tips on how to avoid a poisonous plot & find out what really happenedin 1066!
History has never been so horrible!'
A witty, colourful cover opens to 127 pages, split over 14 chapters:-
Timeline
Big bad Bill
Unlikely legends
1066 & all of this
Live like a Norman
Terrific tales
Norman wisdom
Little villains
Miserable monarchs
Norman nastiness
Norman Italy
Crazy crusaders
Mischievous monks
Norman quiz
with an introduction & an epilogue.
Written with the typical Deary humour.
I never knew history was so fun! - By: , 26 Oct 2002 
I found this book really interesting. i was reluctant to read it first because i usually find history really boring but as soon as i picked up this book i couldn't put it down!
Terry Deary brings history to life with humour & cartoony
drawings that show what it was like back thenin a great way!
After i read this i read 8 more horrible histories & found them all equally good & i recomend it to everyone ages 6 - 12.
Excellent education for children (and adults alike!) - By: , 28 May 2002 This book gives mounds of historical knowledge without the normal boring text. My son has enjoyed each of the horrible history books, learning a massive amount of our history without even realising it! They are funny, well written & illustratedin an English jargon that children easily relate to.
My son wouldn't part with any of them!
Woah, nice book! - By: , 11 May 2001 That was an especially great book, it is really funny including the cartoons. Like when this guy called Harold was going to give a guy called William the Conqueror his kingdom when he died, but he never did. There is a cartoonin which he says, "You can have my kingdom", but then at the same time he thinks "You can also have a flying pig, a blue elephant, & a trip to planet ping-pong." This story was originally told by Norman historians (in their own words of course). They wanted to show that William was the rightful King of England & that King Harold was a a rotten cheat. There is also a lie section & a poison sectionin this book. And what did the ladies do to look pretty? Read this book to find out. P.S nightshade is a deadly plant.
