Harry Houdini: The Legend of the World's Greatest Escape Artist

by Janice Weaver

This illustrated biography of Harry Houdini combines original artwork and archival artifacts--including photographs, playbills and posters, letters, and even some of Houdini's own stage props--to bring the story of the world's greatest escape artist to life. Readers will learn all about Houdini's unique rags-to-riches story, from his birth in a Hungarian ghetto to his death from a ruptured appendix at age fifty-two. The book details his career as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419700146
• ISBN13: 9781419700149
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.5" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7