The fascinating story of Oliver Cromwell warts and all. How the Roundheads ousted the Royals! Illustrated with PhilipReeve s fantastic cartoons.

2006-11-27 A good 'follow-on' from the `Famous Lives/Famous People' series, for an older child.

From the popular DEAD FAMOUS series of books `Oliver Cromwell and his Warts`.

`Which dead famous person gets their big head in a million shots every year? The answer is dead obvious really, since this is a book about Oliver Cromwell. Oliver gets his picture taken so often because his statue stands right outside the Houses of Parliament in London.'.....
...You'd think that would mean that you're pretty popular. But the fact is that many people still can't stand Ollie - even though he's been dead for over 300 years!
So why is Oliver so unpopular? .....Read on for a gripping tale full of battles, beheadings and unbelievably big noses, and meet the real Oliver Cromwell - warts and all!

176 pages, split into chapters:-

Introduction
Timeline : Oliver the obscure
Kid Cromwell - a country life
Angry Oliver and the rebel Parliament
Oliver's army - picking sides
Timeline : Oliver and his Ironsides
Oliver and the not-so-Civil War
Oliver and chopping Charlie
Timeline : Oliver rules
Oliver and the killjoy Commonwealth
Oliver the First!
Old Oliver and his wandering head


Written in a variety of fonts with humorous black and white cartoon illustrations throughout, this is a good reference for an older child.