Play! Read! Learn!

The best way to get to know anything is to have been there. You learn more about a place by visiting it, than by listening to somebody describing it. That's great, if you need to know about London, or Paris, or New York.

But how do you get to know about the past? Surely you can't visit it? In a sense, you can. That's one of the things which museums and heritage centres set out to do. Think, though, how much better it would be to actually live in the past.

That's what children can do now in their imaginations, with the help of two girls, Emma-Louise Bradshaw from Victorian London, and Jane de Lacey from the Elizabethan countryside.

» Emma-Louise and Jane

Two delightful dolls, 18 inches tall (46 centimetres) dressed in accurate period costumes.

» Exciting Stories

Easy-to-read adventures starring Emma-Louise and Jane. Accurately researched and entertainingly written, they describe life during these periods of history