Just over a century ago, "Our Island Story "entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action and illustrated with vivid color pictures illuminate all the main events from Britain's earliest days to the end of Victoria's reign. And its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact Canute and King Arthur with Cromwell and the Indian Mutiny is as seductive now as it ever was."