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THE LIBRARY

ROMANS MAGNIFIED

ZOOM IN ON EVERYDAY ROMAN LIFE

AUTHOR DAVID LONG

ILLUSTRATOR DANIEL ŠPAčEK

PUBLISHER WIDE EYED EDITIONS

PRICE L16.99 / $26

RELEASE OUT NOW

This is a Roman history book for younger readers, but to call just that would be to do it a great disservice. Riffing off the series of illustrated books – or if you’re in North America – brings history to a new level of interactivity that we’d argue is necessary to properly engage students of a certain age. A different facet of life in ancient Rome is explored on each new spread via a short section of introductory text and a highly detailed comic illustration – everything from

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