(Children’s) What Would You Ask?

Amelia Earhart

ISBN 1 85561 896 6

Keywords Biography, History, Education, Children

Marco Polo

ISBN 1 85561 898 2

Keywords Biography, History, Education, Children

The series title is itself a leading question: there is no guarantee that seven‐ to nine‐year‐olds would actually ask the questions posed, and, indeed, they are just as likely to ask quite different and incongruous things; but it is a lively way to approach biography, especially biography set within its historical context. So, there are 12 questions each, starting with a simple “What do you do?” and “Where are you from?”, used as a framework to...