jonh's review
4.0
The Short of It: A classic from my childhood, always worth a reread.
Nyeah! This is a pretty great book, shee? I've tried to find other books in this series (Famous Dead People), but other than one on Henry the VIII, nada. Bupkis. Which is a shame, because this is a fun primer to the life of one of America's most notorious gangsters.
Not much else to explain, really. The cartoons are fun, and the overall tone is playful without being cloying. The only irksome part is the vocabulary at the end of each chapter. You're supposed to find the bolded/italicized words within the preceding chapter, but I swear there are some words in the glossary that never show up. A neat bonus, but seems more like a sloppy editing mistake than anything else.
Still, my sense of nostalgia keeps me from faulting this book too much. Between this and the Horrible History series, I learned more about history (and more weird stuff about history) than I ever did in school. Check it out!
Nyeah! This is a pretty great book, shee? I've tried to find other books in this series (Famous Dead People), but other than one on Henry the VIII, nada. Bupkis. Which is a shame, because this is a fun primer to the life of one of America's most notorious gangsters.
Not much else to explain, really. The cartoons are fun, and the overall tone is playful without being cloying. The only irksome part is the vocabulary at the end of each chapter. You're supposed to find the bolded/italicized words within the preceding chapter, but I swear there are some words in the glossary that never show up. A neat bonus, but seems more like a sloppy editing mistake than anything else.
Still, my sense of nostalgia keeps me from faulting this book too much. Between this and the Horrible History series, I learned more about history (and more weird stuff about history) than I ever did in school. Check it out!
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