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Cartoons and facts combine to describe the life of Mary Queen of Scots, discussing her childhood; escape to France; the death of her father-in-law, mother, and first husband; marriage to Darnley; kidnapping; abdication of the throne; imprisonment in England; and execution.

Humorous illustrations and facts combine to provide a portrait of what life was like aboard an English pirate ship plying the Caribbean Sea during the sixteenth century.

A young boy learns from his grandfather what it takes to become a master stonemason and work at the cathedral in Canterbury in the fourteenth century.

Humorous illustrations and facts combine to provide a portrait of what life might be like if forced to become a Sumerian slave in ancient Mesopotamia.

Cartoons and facts combine to explain what it was like to be a foot soldier in Alexander the Great's army during his invasion of the Persian Empire in the fourth century B.C.

Cartoons and facts combine to explain what it was like to prepare to become a court official and live in the Forbidden City during the mid-eighteenth century.

Presents a children's book for early readers about what a young girl needed to know in order to prepare for her trip on the Mayflower.

Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict what it was like to be a Shakespearean actor during the sixteenth century.

Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict the life of a gangster in Chicago during the 1920s.

Uses humorous text and illustrations to describe what life would be like without mucus.