A fun and magical journey back to the time of the Vikings, with Billie and their very silly pet cat, Mia! Billie has a very special dressing up box. When they choose an outfit from the box, they are whisked back in time to different historical civilisations to discover how people lived in the past! Journey back in time with Billie and Mia to discover the fascinating world of the Vikings. Sail away on a Viking longship, meet fearsome Viking warriors; discover some famous Viking gods and goddesses and play a game of hnefatafl! Contents: Meet Billie and Mia! / Viking homelands ... were near the sea / Viking longships ... were speedy / Viking raids ... happened without warning / Viking warriors ... were terrifying / Valhalla ... was an awesome afterlife / Viking explorers ... travelled far / Viking longhouses ... were basic / Viking feasts ... were grand / Children ... worked, learned and played / Viking leaders ... had excellent names / Norse gods and goddesses ... lived in Asgard / Now it''s your turn to jump into history! / Timeline / Glossary / Find out more / Index Books in the series Jump into History: Ancient Egyptians /Jump into History: Romans / Jump into History: Ancient Greeks / Jump into History: Vikings / Jump into History: The Maya / Jump into History: The Shang Dynasty

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Kay Barnham was born in Barrow-in-Furness, grew up in Carlisle, went to college in Brighton, and lived in Hove for a while, before sailing for Kinsale, Co Cork, popping back to Hove and then moving to the New Forest with her husband and daughter. And never at any point has she lived more than ten miles from the sea. She began working in children's publishing in 1992. She was an editor first of all, working on illustrated non-fiction and learning fun facts like how long it would take to walk to the moon - nine years - and how to spell palaeontology. Next, she commissioned fiction titles, editing picture books, storybooks and novels. And then she got the chance to write her own books, which she thinks is quite the best job ever. Except possibly being a chocolatier. She writes non-fiction as Kay Barnham. Her specialist subjects include ice-skating, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, lightning, fairies, Roald Dahl, Sir Isaac Newton, Christmas, dolphins, Florence Nightingale and very bad cracker jokes. And chocolate. She also writes fiction as Kay Woodward, including the Skate School series for Usborne and the novels Jane Airhead and Wuthering Hearts for Andersen Press. Altogether, she's written about a hundred books. Her favourite colour is navy blue. Her favourite chocolate is 85% cocoa solids.

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• 1: Meet Billie and Mia!
• 2: Viking homelands ... were near the sea
• 3: Viking longships ... were speedy
• 4: Viking raids ... happened without warning
• 5: Viking warriors ... were terrifying
• 6: Valhalla ... was an awesome afterlife
• 7: Viking explorers ... travelled far
• 8: Viking longhouses ... were basic
• 9: Viking feasts ... were grand
• 10: Children ... worked, learned and played
• 11: Viking leaders ... had excellent names
• 12: Norse gods and goddesses ... lived in Asgard
• 13: Now it's your turn to jump into history!
• 14: Timeline / Glossary
• 15: Find out more / Index