Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented

Tanya Lee Stone

ISBN 10: 162779168X / ISBN 13: 9781627791687

Published by Henry Holt and Co., New York, NY, 2018

About this Item

INSCRIBED by author on title page. Slight edge wear, clean copy.

Seller Inventory # 016092

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co., New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 162779168X
• ISBN 13: 9781627791687
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Steven Salerno
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Boldness, imagination, and ruthless competition combine in Tanya Lee Stone and Steven Salerno's Pass Go and Collect $200, a riveting picture book history of Monopoly, one of the world's most famous games.

In the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense of justice. Waves of urban migration drew Lizzie’s attention to rising financial inequality. One day she had an idea: create a game that shows the unfairness of the landlord-tenant relationship. But game players seemed to have the most fun pretending to be wealthy landowners. Enter Charles Darrow, a marketer and salesman with a vision for transforming Lizzie’s game into an exciting staple of American family entertainment. Features back matter that includes "Monopoly Math" word problems and equations. Excellent STEM connections and resources.

This title has Common Core connections.

A Christy Ottaviano Book

About the Authors

Tanya Lee Stone has written several books for young readers, including the young adult novel A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl. She lives with her family in Vermont.

Steven Salerno has illustrated more than twenty picture books, including Brothers At Bat, which made the New York Times Book Review's list of notable picture books for 2012, BOOM!, and Coco the Carrot. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, he lives in New York City.