Hoaxes

By Herbst, Judith

Publishers Summary:
A look at some of history's most famous hoaxes and publicity stunts, including fairy photographs, moon-men, lost tribes, and crop circles.

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ISBN
978-0-82251-629-3
Publisher
Minneapolis, MN : Lerner Publications, c2005.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on February 1, 2005

Gr 3-4 There is no deception in this treatment of popular controversies. Early-20th-century fairy photographs; the Cardiff giant; the Tasadays, primitive people of the Philippines; British crop circles; and the 1835 New York "Sun" news hoax, "Life on the Moon," are all presented with equal irreverence here. Stories about the giant and the crop circles are found readily in many works, but the other tales are, perhaps, less well known to young people. I...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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