Children’s Historical Fiction – Ottoman Empire

Although one of the world’s longest running and most powerful empires we haven’t found much on the Ottoman Empire. But we have found a couple of gems.

Abraham Hannibal and the Battle For the Throne

Frances Mary Somers Cocks (Author), Eric Robson (Illustrator)

The second book in the Abraham Hannibal series, this quirky,  fascinating book explores life as a slave gardener in the palace of the Ottoman Sultan in the early 1700s.

Read full review of Abraham Hannibal 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1584858311/?tag=liviandlear-21

Leyla: The Black Tulip (Girls of Many Lands)

Alev Lytle Croutier (Author)

Set in 1720′s this charts the story of a young girl tricked into slavery and taken to the Sultan’s palace in Istanbul, the heart of the Ottoman Empire.

Read full review of Leyla

Other books we haven’t read:

• Suleiman the Magnificent and the Story of Istanbul (Treasures from the East)
  Julia Marshall (Author), Joan Ulathorne (Illustrator)
• The Emperor’s Winding Sheet 
  Jill Paton Walsh (Author)

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