Bibliograph

Fooled you!, fakes and hoaxes through the years, Elaine Pascoe ; with illustrations by Laurie Keller

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Fooled you!, fakes and hoaxes through the years, Elaine Pascoe ; with illustrations by Laurie Keller

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-87) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fooled you!

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

57311444

Responsibility statement

Elaine Pascoe ; with illustrations by Laurie Keller

Sub title

fakes and hoaxes through the years

Summary

Chapters on 11 infamous hoaxes from the 1800s to the present, exploring the stories behind them and pondering why people are so easily fooled. Hoaxes are meant to fool the world-and some people fall for them. Would you? nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Crop circles. Aliens on earth. Fairies caught on film. Giant cats. What do these phenomena have in common? They are all hoaxes. Elaine Pascoe presents well-researched chapters on nearly a dozen infamous hoaxes-from the 1800s to the present-exploring the stories behind them (how they came to be as well as who instigated them) and pondering why people were so easily fooled. These tantalizing accounts hold tremendous appeal for all ages and are as much about the craftiness of perpetrators as about the gullibility of believers. Would you have been fooled? You'll just have to read Fooled You! to find out

Table Of Contents

The daring balloonists -- The lost princess -- The Fejee mermaid -- The stone giant -- The marvelous machine -- The missing link -- The fraudulent fairies -- The brass plate -- The creature in the woods -- The sign in the field -- Snowball

Target audience

juvenile

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