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McCarthy, Meghan

The Wildest Race Ever: The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon

48 pp. | Simon/Wiseman | March, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-0639-0 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-0640-6
(2) K-3 McCarthy mixes the zany events of the first Olympic marathon on American soil (cheating runners, contaminated water, pilfered peaches, strychnine poisoning) into another appealing informational picture book. The colorful cast of characters is rendered in McCarthy's recognizable cartoonlike acrylic illustrations, which follow myriad subplots, including one athlete being chased off course "by an angry dog" and another stopping to pig out at an apple orchard.
Reviewer: Sam Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2016

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