Marie Antoinette "Madame Deficit"
By (Author) Liz Hockinson
Illustrated by Peter Malone
Goosebottom Books Llc
Goosebottom Books Llc
4th October 2011
United States
Children
Non Fiction
Educational: History
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
944.035
Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Multicultural Nf Teen/YA) 2012
Hardback
32
Width 228mm, Height 215mm
340g
The young, pretty queen who is remembered for supposedly uttering, "Let them eat cake," Marie Antoinette hadfun and spent money on beautiful things, while her people starved. But was she as heartless as everyonebelievedGorgeous illustrations and an intelligent, evocative story bring to life a real dastardly dame whose extravaganceincited a revolution.
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.