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Roman Aromas : (Smelly Old History)

Roman Aromas : (Smelly Old History)

by Mary Dobson (Author), Mary Dobson (Author)

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    Scented Book 1997

    $3.30
Synopsis

[series copy] Smelly Old History is a unique new series that brings history to your nose through scratch-and-sniff panels. Informative and amusing text, lavish and hilarious artwork, poems, and puzzles combine with these pungent panels to give children a true "sense of the past." With these often funny tours back in time, young readers will learn that smells have played a powerful role in our history. When the Romans arrived in Britain they soon showed the rampaging Celts the way to perfumed perfection. Poor old Celts--with their oils, and baths, and drains--those Romans really got up their noses. Sample the splendors of the public baths and a fabulous feast, or suffer with the soldiers in the frozen latrines on Hadrian's Wall in northern England. You won't forget those Roman Aromas in a hurry.

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Format: Scented Book
 Pages: 32
 Edition: 1st. Edition
 Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01 Apr 1997
ISBN 10: 0199100942
ISBN 13: 9780199100941
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years

Media Reviews
Kids who turn up their noses at traditional history texts might like the approach taken in Smelly Old History, a series of scratch-and-sniff volumes by Mary Dobson that chronicles the more pungent aspects of centuries past.... Take a whiff of raw sewage seeping through the streets, a crowded public
bath, and Henry VIII's smelly feet, among other things. --Publishers Weekly
[Dobson's] Smelly Old History series of books...are a striking reply to all who think history books are too sanitized.... Squeamish adults may cavil at this approach, but a 'way cool' response is more likely from readers ages 10 and up.... What's certain is that Dobson's idea will make history more
approachable and lively than the usual dry and unsmelly textbooks at school. --The Denver Post
High school woulda been a breeze with this stuff! --The New York Observer
All of this is actually serious stuff and aimed at adding another dimension to the teaching of history. --The Chicago Tribune
Without these books, how would children learn that 16th-century women pressed peeled apples to their sweaty armpits, then passed the gifts onto their lovers. Or that Romans washed their linens in urine.... Will introduce kids 10 and older to social transformation. --The Washington Post


Kids who turn up their noses at traditional history texts might like the approach taken in Smelly Old History, a series of scratch-and-sniff volumes by Mary Dobson that chronicles the more pungent aspects of centuries past.... Take a whiff of raw sewage seeping through the streets, a crowded public
bath, and Henry VIII's smelly feet, among other things. --Publishers Weekly
[Dobson's] Smelly Old History series of books...are a striking reply to all who think history books are too sanitized.... Squeamish adults may cavil at this approach, but a 'way cool' response is more likely from readers ages 10 and up.... What's certain is that Dobson's idea will make history more
approachable and lively than the usual dry and unsmelly textbooks at school. --The Denver Post
High school woulda been a breeze with this stuff! --The New York Observer
All of this is actually serious stuff and aimed at adding another dimension to the teaching of history. --The Chicago Tribune
Without these books, how would children learn that 16th-century women pressed peeled apples to their sweaty armpits, then passed the gifts onto their lovers. Or that Romans washed their linens in urine.... Will introduce kids 10 and older to social transformation. --The Washington Post

Kids who turn up their noses at traditional history texts might like the approach taken in Smelly Old History, a series of scratch-and-sniff volumes by Mary Dobson that chronicles the more pungent aspects of centuries past.... Take a whiff of raw sewage seeping through the streets, a crowded public bath, and Henry VIII's smelly feet, among other things. --Publishers Weekly
[Dobson's] Smelly Old History series of books...are a striking reply to all who think history books are too sanitized.... Squeamish adults may cavil at this approach, but a 'way cool' response is more likely from readers ages 10 and up.... What's certain is that Dobson's idea will make history more approachable and lively than the usual dry and unsmelly textbooks at school. --The Denver Post
High school woulda been a breeze with this stuff! --The New York Observer
All of this is actually serious stuff and aimed at adding another dimension to the teaching of history. --The Chicago Tribune
Without these books, how would children learn that 16th-century women pressed peeled apples to their sweaty armpits, then passed the gifts onto their lovers. Or that Romans washed their linens in urine.... Will introduce kids 10 and older to social transformation. --The Washington Post


Kids who turn up their noses at traditional history texts might like the approach taken in Smelly Old History, a series of scratch-and-sniff volumes by Mary Dobson that chronicles the more pungent aspects of centuries past.... Take a whiff of raw sewage seeping through the streets, a crowded public bath, and Henry VIII's smelly feet, among other things. --Publishers Weekly


[Dobson's] Smelly Old History series of books...are a striking reply to all who think history books are too sanitized.... Squeamish adults may cavil at this approach, but a 'way cool' response is more likely from readers ages 10 and up.... What's certain is that Dobson's idea will make history more approachable and lively than the usual dry and unsmelly textbooks at school. --The Denver Post


High school woulda been a breeze with this stuff! --The New York Observer


All of this is actually serious stuff and aimed at adding another dimension to the teaching of history. --The Chicago Tribune


Without these books, how would children learn that 16th-century women pressed peeled apples to their sweaty armpits, then passed the gifts onto their lovers. Or that Romans washed their linens in urine.... Will introduce kids 10 and older to social transformation. --The Washington Post


Author Bio

Mary Dobson is the author of The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Medicine. She is a senior research officer at the Welcome Institute and teaches at Oxford University in England.