The Giant Print Library
Topic list: The
Victorians
Updated: January 2012
Age ranges: Up to 13+
Any UK member of our library service
may borrow up to a maximum of 6
books per service for a 3 month loan
period.
Most of the books have been produced
by the National Blind Children's
Society and are in 24 point type with
identical covers to the ordinary print
versions of the books.
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Please be aware that due to their size,
many of the books are split into two or
more volumes, and these will have the
same covers.
For details on borrowing any of the
titles listed or for further information
regarding the Giant Print collection
please contact Liz Farrell or Hazel
Sharrock, Children's Librarians at
RNIB National Library Service on 0161
429 1975.
The Victorians
Barber, Jill
Children in Victorian times. 2006.
1v.
This book is part of a series which
addresses topics with lots of
photographs and diagrams plus clear
text and highlighted key words. Good
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for report writing, data gathering and
research activities in Year 6.
Deary, Terry.
The barmy British Empire. 1994. 1v.
Suggested reading age 9+.
Part of the Horrible Histories series.
Giving you the brutal facts about how
Britannia ruled the waves - from
infamous antics in India to dreadful
deeds down under. Read about
savage slavers, rotten rebels and
nasty natives, go for victory with
Queen Victoria's quick eastern quiz,
and meet the horrid heroes of the
British Empire.
Deary, Terry.
The villainous Victorians. 1994. 1v.
Suggested reading age 9+.
Part of the Horrible Histories series.
The author revisits one of the bestselling subjects on the list, and gives
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us more of the grim truth about the
nasty nineteenth century.
Geras, Adele.
Lizzie's wish. 2004. 1v. Suggested
reading age 9+.
Part of The Historical House series.
On an extended visit to her cousins in
London, Lizzie's passion for plants and
trees is fuelled by visits to the newly
opened Kew Gardens. Like her elder
cousin, who wants to defy her middleclass upbringing and become a nurse,
Lizzie has ambition and the will to go
against the conventions of her
Victorian peers. She wants to be a
gardener, and the first step towards
her dream is to plant a walnut in the
garden of 6 Chelsea Walk.
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Hughes, Thomas.
Tom Brown's schooldays. 1999. 3v.
Suggested reading age 11+.
A classic schoolboy adventure story of
Victorian literature, Tom Brown's
Schooldays has long had an influence
well beyond the middle-class, public
school world that it describes.
Oldfield, Pamela.
Workhouse. 2008. 1v. Suggested
interest age 9+.
Part of the My Story series. It's
January 1871 when Edith, the
sheltered daughter of a wealthy widow,
pays her first eventful visit to the
workhouse for the poor. There she
meets Rosie, a rebellious quicktempered orphan who is always
getting into trouble.
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Park, Ruth
Playing Beatie Bow. 2001. 2v.
Suggested reading age 13+.
Quiet Abigail Kirk watches children on
the Sydney estate where she lives,
play 'Beatie Bow' - a frightening but
compulsive game. She follows a
strange looking girl who watches but
never joins in. Suddenly Abigail is
nearly run over by a Victorian cab.
Unwittingly she has gone back in time,
to 1873…
Steele, Philip
100 things you should know about
Victorian Britain. 2006. 1v.
Suggested reading age 9+.
Part of the 100 things you should know
about series. Fascinating facts about
Queen Victoria's reign and the rise of
the British Empire through to art and
architecture.
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Wilson, Jacqueline.
The Lottie project. 1998. 2v.
Suggested reading age 9+.
A tale of two girls from different times,
but with similar problems. Charlie
thinks the Victorians were not at all
dull, and Lottie, who is also eleven,
certainly isn't. Her life is hard work,
but Charlie thinks Lottie would know
what to do about her Mom's dreadful
boyfriend and his wimpy son.