The Minimus books are a series of school textbooks, written by Barbara Bell, illustrated by Helen Forte, and published by the Cambridge University Press, designed to help children of primary school age to learn Latin.
The books espouse some of the principles of the direct method of language teaching, and feature a mouse of the same name; minimus is (Latin for "smallest", and also a pun on mus — Latin for "mouse".
The books feature many artifacts from Vindolanda, integrating real objects into fictional plot lines.
[3] The setting of the stories is altered to several European locations[4] and there is considerably more formal grammar and exercises, in line with Italian teaching methods.
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