How to be a Samurai - Softcover

The book is packed with facts and investigates all aspects of your life as a Samurai - including training, weaponry and armour, and life on campaign - showing how you will learn to serve your shogun and follow the code of the warrior. The book features illustrations of contemporary characters and artefacts to elucidate the text. Informative captions, a quiz, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal educational text. It: fits into the guidelines for the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 2, promoting literacy in primary school classrooms; and helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-1, promoting 'positive attitudes to learning', 'knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the world' and 'skills in literacy'.

Fiona Macdonald studied History at Cambridge University and at the University of East Anglia. She has taught in schools and adult education, and is the author of numerous books for children on historical topics. John James was born in London in 1959. He studied at Eastbourne College of Art and has specialised in historical reconstruction since leaving school in 1982. He now lives in Sussex.