Collins Big Cat - Hard Times: Growing Up in the Victorian Age: Band 17/Diamond

Jillian Powell, Illustrated by Various
Part of the Collins Big Cat series 
Paperback  •  978-0-00-723106-5  •  Sep  2008

Imagine you were a child in Victorian times. What was your day like? What did you wear, eat and play with? Did you go to school, or out to work? Find out what life was like for children in this enthralling non-fiction book.

• A timeline on pages 54 and 55 help children to recap the main events of the Victorian era.

• Text type: A non-chronological report

• This book is paired with Moving Out a fiction story set in the past about a family in post-World-War-Two London deciding whether to move out to a New Town.

• Curriculum links: History: What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain.