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28 pp.
| Goosebottom
| October, 2011
|
TradeISBN 978-0-9834256-4-9$18.95
(4)
4-6
Thinking Girl's Treasury of Dastardly Dames series.
Illustrated by
Peter Malone.
Profiling some of history's most notorious women rulers, this series employs crisp writing along with an appealing mix of dramatic paintings and photographs (mainly of places and items). The main texts deliver plenty of gory details; most volumes include sidebars highlighting cultural specifics. It's a little all over the place, but the series, with its sharp hook, should appeal to a diverse readership. Review covers these Thinking Girl's Treasury of Dastardly Dames titles: Agrippina, Catherine de' Medici, Cixi, Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette, and Mary Tudor.