Angry Aztecs
Horrible Histories (Original) Series
Author: Terry Deary
Illustrator: Martin Brown
Book 9 in the Horrible Histories (Original) series
Pages: 144
Published: 1997
Age: 8+
Powerful priests, weird warriors and cunning Conquistadors… the angry Aztecs knew how to make history exciting! From their gruesome gods to the horrible habit of drinking live toads in wine, and from a very deadly ball game to the terrible temples where freaky Aztec priests ripped out human hearts, this is history with extra nasty bits left in!
About the Horrible Histories (Original) Series
Books in series order
- 1.Awesome Egyptians(1993)
- 2.Terrible Tudors(1993)
- 3.Blitzed Brits(1994)
- 4.Vicious Vikings(1994)
- 5.Vile Victorians(1994)
- 6.Groovy Greeks(1996)
- 7.Measly Middle Ages(1996)
- 8.Slimy Stuarts(1996)
- 9.Angry Aztecs(1997)
- 10.Awful Egyptians(1997)
- 11.Cut Throat Celts(1997)
- 12.Frightful First World War(1998)
- 13.Gorgeous Georgians(1998)
- 14.Terrifying Tudors(1998)
- 15.Rotten Romans(1999)
- 16.Savage Stone Age(1999)
- 17.Woeful Second World War(1999)
- 18.Incredible Incas(2000)
- 19.Smashing Saxons(2000)
- 20.Stormin' Normans(2001)
- 21.Barmy British Empire(2002)
- 22.Ruthless Romans(2003)
- 23.Villianous Victorians(2004)
Reading age: 8+ years
Horrible Histories are history books with the guts left in! These illustrated accounts present the unusual, gory, and unpleasant facts of history with tongue-in-cheek humour guaranteed to appeal to children.