Fooled you! : fakes and hoaxes through the years / Elaine Pascoe ; with illustrations by Laurie Keller.
Explores hoaxes that have been successfully perpetrated, including crop circles, fairies on film, and giant cats, examining how such trickery was done and the process by which the hoaxers and their stunts were revealed.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250079909
- ISBN: 125007990X
- Physical Description: viii, 87 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Square Fish edition.
- Publisher: New York : Square Fish, Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 86). |
Formatted Contents Note: | The daring balloonists -- The lost princess -- The Fejee mermaid -- The stone giant -- The marvelous machine -- The missing link -- The fraudulent fairies -- The brass plate -- The creature in the woods -- The sign in the field -- Snowball. |
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Subject: | Impostors and imposture > Juvenile literature. Impostors and imposture. Impostors and imposture. |
Genre: | Juvenile works. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Waterloo-Grant Twp PL - Waterloo | J 001.9 PAS (Text) | 30090000713219 | Childrens | Available | - |
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Elaine Pascoe has written many nonfiction books for young readers and has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer, and editor. She lives in Connecticut.
Laurie Keller is the acclaimed author-illustrator of Do Unto Otters, Arnie, the Doughnut, The Scrambled States of America, and Open Wide: Tooth School Inside, among numerous other books for children. She earned a B.F.A. at Kendall College of Art and Design. She lives in Michigan, in a little cottage in the woods on the shore of Lake Michigan.