If you want to be a Viking, this book tells you everything that you need to know from how to milk a cow, to how to choose a sword This information book is carefully organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.

- Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.

- Text type - An information book.

- The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.

- The glossary and index on pages 30 and 31 can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.

- Curriculum links - History: A Viking case study.