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Raucous Royals

Raucous Royals

by Carlyn Beccia (Author)

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 64
 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 31 Jul 2009
ISBN 10: 0618891307
ISBN 13: 9780618891306

Media Reviews
* [Beccia's] stylish melange of witty illustrations - silhouettes with speech bubbles, dramatic tableaux, caricatures - and interactive text demands reader participation: rather than provide a historical narrative, the author presents statements as true-or-false quizzes, then theorizes why a rumour might have come to exist. - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author Bio
Carlyn Beccia's published works include Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo? and The Raucous Royals. The latter was inspired by her trip to Paris: I went to Versailles, she writes, and discovered that Marie Antoinette never said her infamous line 'Let them eat cake.' Then I remembered also believing that Anne Boleyn had six fingers. After much digging, I discovered that one of her biographers after her death said she had an extra nail. A nail isn't a finger. That discovery led to another rumor and then another.