Wellington Square Think About it Escape from Elephant Island
No. of pages 24
Published: 2003
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This book features in the following series: Think About It, Wellington Square .
There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published in 2003 by Oxford University Press .
Alison Hawes is a freelance writer specializing in fiction and non-fiction for children. She has been a school teacher, a classroom assistant, and playgroup helper but now writes full time. She has written over 80 books for schools, stories and articles for BBC Playdays.
This book is in the following series:
Wellington Square
Wellington Square uses tried-and-tested combination of familiar characters and settings with irresistible plots to produce a resource that will engage even the most reluctant readers. To help promote thinking skills the stories are based around thought provoking Citizenship themes.
This book features the following characters:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
This book features the character Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton.
Ernest Shackleton
As a boy Ernest Shackleton preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. I914 saw his historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance.
