Marie Antoinette 'Madame Deficit'

Informationen zum Autor Liz Hockinson is the author of the award-winning picture book, Marcello The Movie Mouse, illustrated by Kathryn Otoshi, and inspired by Saturday morning trips to the movie theatre as a child. Liz lives in Northern California with her family, including her beloved grandsons, Kole and Kaden.Peter Malone has illustrated over twenty children’s books for such publishers as Chronicle, Knopf, Putnam, Running Press, and Scholastic. In addition to creating gorgeous illustrations, he wrote the book, Close to the Wind, about the use of the Beaufort scale for measuring wind force at sea. School Library Journal called it ?informative and utterly charming.” He lives in Bath, England, with his wife, a restorer of paintings, and their two grown daughters. Klappentext "Marie Antoinette had fun and spent money on beautiful things, while her people starved. But was she as heartless as everyone believed?"--Dust jacket flap. Zusammenfassung Before falling victim to the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette - the young, pretty queen who is credited for proclaiming, "Let them eat cake" - lived a life of excess in the French court while her people starved. With illustrations and an appealing story, this book looks at her roles as a mother, a wife, and a trend-setter.

Product details

• Authors: Liz Hockinson, Liz/ Malone Hockinson
• Assisted by: Peter Malone (Illustration)
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780983425649
• ISBN: 978-0-9834256-4-9
• No. of pages: 32
• Series: Thinking Girl's Treasury of Da; The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Dastardly Dames; Thinking Girl's Treasury of Da; The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Dastardly Dames
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics