Best Books for the Tudors Topic
This booklist features recommended children’s books about the Tudors.
Plots and playwrights, executions and explorers, monarchs and musicians….there’s no denying that the Tudor topic is one of the most exciting periods in British history to study. We’ve picked out some of our favourite texts suitable for primary school children to help explore the Tudor topic. For chapter books about Tudor times, dig into Berlie Doherty’s Treason or The Queen’s Fool, or for something a little more interactive try the search-and-find book Find Tom in Time: Shakespeare’s London.
Look out for stories featuring merry monarchs like Elizabeth I and Henry VIII, for galleons and gallows and also for tales containing no end of perils including plots to the throne, sneaky spies and deadly executions, in our selection of the best children’s books about the Tudors…