Boudica and her Barmy Army
Boudica and her Barmy Army is one of the ‘Dead Famous’ series of books. It’s the story of the Celtic warrior queen and her fight against the Romans in Britain.
I went to Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex to find out more about Boudica, and the more I learned, the more I admired her. She, her daughters, and her people were treated appallingly by the Romans, but did she let them get away with it? She did not!
This book was great fun to write because I could let myself go with jokes and ideas for cartoons. No, I didn’t draw the pictures – I’m useless at art. A brilliant illustrator called Clive Goddard interpreted my ideas, and added a huge amount of his own. He’s very clever.
I loved writing in lots of different styles for this book. Sometimes I was a newspaper reporter for the Romans, sometimes I was an interviewer for the Brits. And sometimes I was Boudica herself, writing her secret thoughts in her intimate diary!
Published by Scholastic
ISBN:978-0439963572