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In October 2018, Bloomsbury Children published The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Illustrated Edition.

Peter worked with Neil Packer to produce a new version of his global best-seller, aimed at younger readers.

Silk Roads has become a firm favourite in classrooms in the Uk - helped by teaching guides and supplements freely available for teachers from the publisher.

The illustrated edition has  been translated into more than a dozen lanauges, including French, German, Dutch, Russian, Romanian, Croatian, Korean and Chinese)_


Long-listed for the Clip Greenaway Medal  2020
Short-listed for the SLA Information Book Award 2019
Amazon Best Book of the Month, Children's Non-Fiction

Books of the Year 2018, Big Issue

Best Books for Christmas 2018 (CultureFly)

'The beautifully rendered retelling of [Frankopan's] masterpiece....The fact that so many people escape childhood without a real passion for history is more a fault of the lackluster storytelling skills of contemporary historians. The team of Frankopan and Packer are the exception extraordinaire.' (Foreward Reviews)

'Spellbinding....a pitch-perfect treasure' (LoveReading4Kids)

'The past need not be seen as linear or chronolgical, Frankopan conveys, but rather as an intersection of ever-evolving human experiences.' (Publishers' Weekly)