What is in a rumor? Carlyn Beccia invites us to look more closely at all rumors and consider how the truth can become twisted over time in her new book, The Raucous Royals, just out from Houghton Mifflin. This one-of-a-kind combination of nonfiction picture book, graphic novel, and tabloid magazine invites young readers on a journey through time to discover the ugly truth behind royalty's even uglier rumors.



The idea for The Raucous Royals, Carlyn’s second book, came after a trip to Paris. “I went to Versailles and discovered that Marie Antoinette never said her infamous line ‘Let them eat cake.’ Then I remembered also believing that Anne Boleyn had six fingers. After much digging, I discovered that one of her biographers after her death said she had an extra nail. A nail isn’t a finger. That discovery led to another rumor and then another . . .”



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