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TRICKY VIC
The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
Kids will love to read about Vic's thrilling life, and teachers will love the informational sidebars and back matter. Award-winner Greg Pizzoli’s humorous and vibrant graphic style of illustration mark a bold approach to picture book biography.
In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a.k.a. “Count Victor Lustig,” moved to Paris hoping to be an artist. A con artist, that is. He used his ingenious scams on unsuspecting marks all over the world, from the Czech Republic, to Atlantic ocean liners, and across America. Tricky Vic pulled off his most daring con in 1925, when he managed to "sell" the Eiffel Tower to one of the city’s most successful scrap metal dealers! Six weeks later, he tried to sell the Eiffel Tower all over again. Vic was never caught. For that particular scam, anyway. . . .
Kids will love to read about Vic's thrilling life, and teachers will love the informational sidebars and back matter. Award-winner Greg Pizzoli’s humorous and vibrant graphic style of illustration mark a bold approach to picture book biography.
His first picture book, The Watermelon Seed, won the 2014 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. Although his award-winning debut picture book only came out last year, Greg Pizzoli already has projects in the works with Viking, Disney*Hyperion, Candlewick, and FSG.
Greg Pizzoli is an author and illustrator of several picture books, including The Watermelon Seed, which received the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. His first nonfiction picture book, Tricky Vic, was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, an Amazon Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, an American Library Association Notable Book, and received a Blue Ribbon from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. Visit Greg online at www.gregpizzoli.com
Kids will love to read about Vic's thrilling life, and teachers will love the informational sidebars and back matter. Award-winner Greg Pizzoli’s humorous and vibrant graphic style of illustration mark a bold approach to picture book biography.
His first picture book, The Watermelon Seed, won the 2014 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. Although his award-winning debut picture book only came out last year, Greg Pizzoli already has projects in the works with Viking, Disney*Hyperion, Candlewick, and FSG.
Greg Pizzoli is an author and illustrator of several picture books, including The Watermelon Seed, which received the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. His first nonfiction picture book, Tricky Vic, was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, an Amazon Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, an American Library Association Notable Book, and received a Blue Ribbon from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. Visit Greg online at www.gregpizzoli.com
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Published 2015-03-10 by Viking Juvenile |
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Published 2015-03-10 by Viking Juvenile |