Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

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This is the true story of one of the most crooked con men ever to have lived, a man whose infamous scheme led him to be known by the Secret Service, police, and admirers around the globe as 'The Man Who Stole the Eiffel Tower.' This is the true story of one of the most crooked con men ever to have lived, a man whose infamous scheme led him to be known by the Secret Service, police, and admirers around the globe as 'The Man Who Stole the Eiffel Tower.' A Junior Library Guild Selection 'What a con job!I mean that in the best possible way.Vic was tricky but so is Greg Pizzoli. His storytelling and mixed-media artwork is rendered with expert sleight of hand.'Lane Smith, Caldecott Honor winner for The Stinky Cheese Man and Grandpa Green 'It's hard enough to make a well-told story out of real-life things-it's almost unfair that Greg Pizzoli could also make it this pretty.'Jon Klassen, Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator of This Is Not My Hat

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Selected for The New York Times ten Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2015

Selected for Amazon's Best Books of the Year list

Selected for the American Library Association's Notable Children's Books List

Nominated for the Children's Choice Book Awards Best Illustrator

"Splendid. . . . Loaded with facts but with good storytelling and high-level illustration. . . . Im thrilled that Pizzoli has chosen to present [Tricky Vic's] story so compellingly to our nations children."The New York Times

"Intriguing."The Wall Street Journal

"What a con job!I mean that in the best possible way.Vic was tricky but so is Greg Pizzoli. His storytelling and mixed-media artwork is rendered with expert sleight of hand."Lane Smith, author/illustrator of It's a Bookand the Caldecott Honor bookGrandpa Green

"It's hard enough to make a well-told story out of real-life thingsits almost unfair that he could also make it this pretty."Jon Klassen, author and illustrator of the Caldecott Medal winner This Is Not My Hat

* "An appealingly colorful, deadpan account of a remarkably audacious and creative criminal."Kirkus Reviews, starred review

* "What a fabulous story."The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review

"Elementary-school kids impressed by brazen acts of skulduggery will be snowed by this well-told true story."Booklist

"Greg Pizzoli gets high marks for derring-do. . . . The bold, graphic mixed-media artmade with photographs, rubber stamps, pencil, ink, and digital toolssteals the show."The Boston Globe

"A fascinating story, with quirky, retro-style, mixed-media art that will appeal to readers."School Library Journal

Stylish illustrations. . . Pizzolis recounting entertains.Publishers Weekly

With a sophisticated, genially sinister design incorporating cartoons and photographs into a low-toned red and mustard palette, the book signals the right kind of reader: one for whom venality is no obstacle to a good time.The Horn Book

"The clever illustrations add to the enjoyment; this is an entertaining biography and an interesting glimpse into the history of a criminal."Library Media Connection

Author Bio

Greg Pizzoliis an author, illustrator and screen printer from Philadelphia. His first picture book,The Watermelon Seed, was published by Disney*Hyperion Books and was the2014 recipient of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. Greg's work has been featured in The New York Times, Communication Arts, 3x3 Magazine and he's won two Portfolio Honor Awards from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. After college, Greg spent two years as a full-time volunteer in AmeriCORPSfrom 2005-2006. In 2009, he received his MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he now teaches.Greg lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two unruly cats.