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Kid's Rome Eyewitness Travel Guides, Dorling Kindersley, £4.99
Family guide with practical details and ideas for parents about where to go, what to see and do, facts about the sights and what to look out for to keep children involved. Recommends hotels and restaurants which welcome children and how to avoid long queues. Factfinder section has suggestions for days out and trips further afield plus additional places of interest like museums and parks, as well as how to buy clothes, hire a bike, or a pushchair. Colour photos, maps and artworks.

Plenty of background info is invaluable in a place like this. The Feltrinelli chain of bookshops stocks Ancient Rome for Kids, Elisabetta Parisi - Rosaria Punzi,, Fratelli Palombi Editori, Lit22,000. Translated into English, the language is a touch ungainly but the style good.