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    Re: Horrible Book order going in
    JBDad #111730 09/14/11 10:24 AM
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    Has anyone seen the science and other books in this series ? I've heard great things abot the math and history books - just wondering about the others (as seen on the Horrible Book website).
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    Our twins love love love these books. They really connect with the humorous presentation and irreverence, combined with clear and accurate content. We started with math and science back when they were 7ish (?) yo. We own most of the math and science series, and also some of the geography and history. They are now 11 yo and in middle school, and dd still picks them up for pleasure reading, even after having read them many times over the years. Enjoy!
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    my DS loves these books too. We don't have many at the moment but his birthday's in a couple of months wink He has a few histories, ore science and one maths so far. He'd love to have all of them but I don't think that's going to happen.
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    My DD8 is an outlier - we have a few of the Murderous Maths, but she doesn't care for them. (She does enjoy The Number Devil and Life of Fred.)
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    I am a fan of Horrible Books. I noted that the "Blood-Curdling Box (Horrible Histories)" can also be bought pretty cheaply on Amazon:
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1407108158/ref=dp_olp_new

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    We got DS 5.5 the general science one, science with the squishy bits left in, to try it out - FANTASTIC, my super sciencey guy things it's awesome, we are thinking of buying the boxed set and doling them out! Highly recommended - perfect combo of pictures and not dumbed down science. Can't do the histories just yet, DS is less into history but would be freaked by the gore and stuff. Thinking about the geography one though.

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    DD6 loves, loves these books...science is by far her favorite ones, she likes the history ones too and I'm ordering the math ones because I've heard alot of good things on those
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    Thanks everyone - I think I'll have an order going in this weekend. I've also recommended them to my son's school (a Math, Science and Technology school) smile
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