Horrible Histories

I've seen the Horrible Histories books many times since I came to Ireland but they still surprise me.

When my parents were visiting we saw a wide variety of them on sale at one of the OPW maintained castles which struck me as a hilarious sign of the times: at an Irish government-funded and -maintained site, a visitor can purchase The Cut-Throat Celts Sticker-Activity Book.

This is the kind of thing I would've loved as a kid and it makes the little girl in me positively gleeful. Okay, it makes the adult me gleeful, too, especially when I think that these books provide an information that might help children realize that history books are edited and composed like any other work of fiction.

Anyway, I thought there might be some of you out there who would get a warm-and-fuzzy feeling from knowing these books exist. (And you can send an Evil E-card from their site!)