Rome: In Spectacular Cross-Section

by Andrew Solway and Stephen Biesty

Book Overview

Million-copy best-selling creator of the "Incredible Cross-Sections" series now brings his talent to a new challenge: Ancient Rome. "Rome in a Day" is set in 128 AD, on a festival day and follows one... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439455464
• ISBN13: 9780439455466
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Scholastic Reference
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.8" x 13.8"
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher

Customer Reviews

learning through the details

This excellent book is a visual delight. It makes a powerful teaching tool-the pictograph-continue its contribution to education.The book's detailed illustrations draw the viewer in and engage him in a world that was as complex interesting and varied as ours (if not more so).

Absolutely one of Biesty's best

Lots of parents will be familiar with Stephen Biesty's "Cross-Sections" series, in which he provides wonderfully detailed cutaway drawings of famous old buildings and the like (e.g., ocean liners, spaceships, cathedrals, etc.). I really think this is one of the best of the series, too. Previously our favorite was "Stephen Biesty's Man-of-War," which detailed life on a Napoleonic-era battleship. That one provided such good information that even an adult reading an old Horatio Hornblower novel could use it as a reference book. Likewise, "Rome" depicts the main buildings and neighborhoods of Rome, maintaining a narrative about a young boy of noble family, Titus, as he investigates his native city. An absolute must for any child or adult interested in ancient history or trying to become interested!