Steal Back the Mona Lisa!

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While our hero, Jack,* sleeps in New York, a couple of crooked crooks are stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris. Their intentions are dark—they plan to deface the famous painting with a mustache! Can brave Jack come to the rescue . . . before it's too late?           With bold cartoony illustrations and action-packed text, the talented Meghan McCarthy has created a whirlwind spy tale filled with speeding cars, daring escapes, and astounding ...

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Overview

While our hero, Jack,* sleeps in New York, a couple of crooked crooks are stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris. Their intentions are dark—they plan to deface the famous painting with a mustache! Can brave Jack come to the rescue . . . before it's too late?           With bold cartoony illustrations and action-packed text, the talented Meghan McCarthy has created a whirlwind spy tale filled with speeding cars, daring escapes, and astounding heroism. *Names may have been changed to protect secret-agent identities.
Includes an author's note with information about the actual theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.

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Publishers Weekly
Part James Bond, part Inspector Gadget, the boy hero of McCarthy's (Aliens Are Coming!) energetic picture book dreams he foils a plot to steal back the Mona Lisa from two "crooked crooks." With animation-ready artwork and a plot that zooms from one harrowing scene to the next, the book brims with tongue-in-cheek humor. A narrator with a delivery as droll as the voice-overs in Rocky and Bullwinkle tells of the two hapless cartoon villains. sporting striped beanies and black masks, who shadow the protagonist. When Jack says, "Ah, this drink is good," the narrator asks, "But is it good?" (a shady figure hides nearby). "No! The juice is poisoned. Jack gets kidnapped and delivered in a truck to a dark, sinister warehouse.... and it gets worse." Slapstick high jinx abound. When Jack is thrown from a plane going to France, he saves himself by pulling his "insta-blimp cord" and lands in Russia instead. His hat contains enough slippery oil to deflect a mysterious van, and his special agent watch has scissors that allow him to cut a rope and escape from sharks. The copyright information is cleverly incorporated into a faux 1911 newspaper article about a real-life Mona Lisa thief. Although the narrator never explains why the crooks seem more interested in following Jack than in getting on with their plans, there's enough derring-do for plenty of laughs. Ages 4-8. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Children's Literature - Ken Marantz
The famous painting of Mona Lisa is stolen by "a few crooked crooks." Our hero, young Jack, is awakened by a strange sort of flying radio, and given a mission: get it back. Dressed in a private-eye type brown hat and suit, which have appeared in his closet, and equipped with a special-agent watch, he enters a waiting car for his trip to return the painting to the Louvre. Meanwhile, those wicked crooks are planning to ruin the painting. Jack races to the rescue by car, then by plane, but unfortunately by mistake to Russia. There he is poisoned, kidnapped, subjected to ridiculous torture, bound, and dropped into a shark-filled sea. Luckily Jack's special-agent watch helps him set himself free in time to accomplish his mission. All the imaginative derring-do is doused with humor until the surprise end. The visual tale is told on long double pages dominated by backgrounds smoothly painted in acrylic in somber nighttime tones. The characters are cartoonish in their simplicity, with white, ping-pong-ball eyes. The large white words of text seem to jump from the dark pages, creating an atmosphere of humorous excitement. For readers with a bit of art knowledge, there are extra smiles for the parodies of famous paintings on the museum walls. An international edition of "The Mona Lisa Times" ("All the News That's Fit to Paint") closes the book, with the CIC information made part of the news, along with a reproduction of the lady herself and information about the time she really was stolen.
School Library Journal
K-Gr 2-"Jack was asleep, but something wakes him up. Jack has a mission. But what is it?" What looks like a flying radio has advised him to recover the famous painting, which has been stolen by two "crooked crooks" who seem to want nothing more than to paint a mustache on her. This story draws inspiration from spy stories and old-time radio serials. It's full of secret-agent gadgets, rhetorical questions, and some outrageously dangerous situations. The comic illustrations, done with acrylic paints, strike an effective balance between mock gravity and overt silliness. The plot may be the book's weakest part. As the events unfold, they verge on seeming random rather than inspired. While some readers may be amused, others will be confused. An interesting endnote describes an actual theft of the Mona Lisa. All in all, a fun but nonessential purchase.-Lauralyn Persson, Wilmette Public Library, IL Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Definitely a dream but no less exciting for that, this freewheeling escapade sends a lad in pursuit of international art thieves. News that the Mona Lisa has been stolen lifts Jack from his bed, transforms him into a secret agent with all sorts of cool gear and propels him across the Atlantic to recover the masterpiece before the nefarious no-goodniks can carry out their hideous plan to-well, follow Marcel Duchamp's lead. McCarthy crafts noirish cartoons of a popeyed, trench coat-clad Jack foiling repeated attempts on his life and braving such tortures as being forced to "watch videos of chickens dancing-OVER and OVER again!" He nabs the crooks, sneaks the relieved-looking portrait back to her rightful place in the Louvre, then, using "secret methods too treacherous to mention," ends up back in his room. A newspaper-style closing describes an actual theft of the Mona Lisa in the early 20th-century, giving this episode a tenuous connection with reality. This melodramatic adventure will keep young readers riveted. (Picture book. 6-9)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780152053680
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 10/1/2006
  • Pages: 40
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 10.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.10 (d)

Meet the Author

MEGHAN McCARTHY has written and illustrated several other bright, bold, and funny books for children, including Show Dog, an IRA-CBC Children's Choice, and The Adventures of Patty and the Big Red Bus. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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