These are further books in the successful Sparks series which looks at major events in British history through the eyes of fictional and real-life characters. Each book takes the form of a lively and exciting narrative, which contains a lot of interesting information about each event. Chimney Charlie tells the story of how hard it was to be a chimney sweep in the Victorian times. Cold and hungry Charlie is forced to clean chimneys against his will, until one day he gets stuckl, but little did he know that it would be the luckiest day of his life.

 

This book features in the following series: Sparks, Sparks Series, The Victorians .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Hachette Children's Group .

Roy Apps is the author of more than fifty children's books, including The Twitches, Fang Gang and How To Handle. He is the author of the highly successful Dream to Win series for Franklin Watts.