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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Krensky is the author of more than a hundred books for children, including How Santa Got His Job (an ALA Notable Book) and Big Bad Wolves at School . He and his wife, Joan, live in Lexington, Massachusetts. You can visit him at StephenKrensky.com. Saturday morning cartoons and lounge music, big-time wrestling and creature movies, bowling alleys and flying saucers, kitschy fun parks and the Ramones, diners, Dino-Land, Dean Martin-these are just a few of Daniel Guidera 's favorite things that inspire his signature Illustration-A-Go-Go! style. His work has appeared in venues such as MAD Magazine , Topps baseball cards, cookie boxes, in-flight magazines, great metropolitan newspapers, technology magazines and grade school textbooks. Most recently, Daniel had immense fun creating illustrations for the iPad e-book app My Dad Drives A Roller Coaster Car, currently available in the iTunes store. He's won awards, but then, so has everybody. Klappentext Young readers can chow down on a slice of mouthwatering history in this nonfiction reader all about pizza. A special section at the back includes relevant information on subjects like geography and science. Zusammenfassung Chow down on a slice of history in this fact-tastic nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read all about pizza! part of a series about the history of fun stuff! Did you know that two thousand years ago! the soldiers of Darius the Great used their shields to cook a pizza-like flatbread? Or that Americans eat approximately 350 slices of pizza per second? That adds up to more than seventy-five football fields of pizza each day! Learn all about the mouthwatering history of pizza in this fun! fact-filled book. A special section at the back of the book includes relevant info on subjects like geography and science! and there’s even a fun quiz so you can test yourself to see what you’ve learned!