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MEET MARTIN BROWN OF HORRIBLE HISTORIES

What do you love about illustrating Horrible Histories?

Non-fiction has the best stories. You couldn’t make that stuff up. In the latest , , we learn about Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries – the first people to cross the English Channel in a balloon. It was not a pleasant trip. They argued all the way and the balloon kept losing height – and neither

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