The kids were delighted when the first issue of the new Horrible Histories magazine www.hhmag.co.uk came through the letterbox for us to review. Bella won the fight to have first read, but chucked it over to her brother after a few minutes – even though they both love the books http://horrible-histories.co.uk and TV series she said she couldn’t read it as ‘it’s for much younger children’. She’s 14, and I know what she means. The magazine has a comic strip format and is full of fact boxes, colourful photos and illustrations. It also has a simple crossword, a letters page and instructions on how to draw a Viking. George, 9, really enjoyed reading it, especially features such as the Vile Jokes page (an example, ‘What do you call a Roman emperor with a cold? JULIUS SNEEZER.’). The magazine has 34 pages and costs £2.99. This issue came with a ‘DISGUSTING PEASANT PACK’ including a warty nose which my husband is planning to wear to a party this weekend. I won’t fight him for it.
His party outfit needs to be featured in a future post!
I’ll see what I can do!