The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues - Hardcover

Raskin, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525423680 ISBN 13: 9780525423683

Publisher: Dutton Childrens Books, 2011

Synopsis

In a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Special Award-winning story, Dickory Dock takes a painter's assistant job at a house filled with suspicious characters, dark secrets and an eccentric portrait artist who uses clever disguises to tackle a tricky mystery. By the author of the Newbery Award-winning The Westing Game. Simultaneous.

About this title

About the Authors

Ellen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up during the Great Depression. She was the author of several novels, including the Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game, the Newbery Honor-winning Figgs & Phantoms, The Tattooed Potato and other clues, and The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel). She also wrote and illustrated many picture books and was an accomplished graphic artist. She designed dust jackets for dozens of books, including the first edition of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic A Wrinkle in Time. Ms. Raskin died at the age of fifty-six on August 8, 1984, in New York City.

Ellen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up during the Great Depression. She was the author of several novels, including the Newbery Medal-winningThe Westing Game, the Newbery Honor-winning Figgs & Phantoms, The Tattooed Potato and other clues, andThe Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel). She also wrote and illustrated many picture books and was an accomplished graphic artist. She designed dust jackets for dozens of books, including the first edition of Madeleine L’Engle’s classicA Wrinkle in Time. Ms. Raskin died at the age of fifty-six on August 8, 1984, in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dutton Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525423680
• ISBN 13: 9780525423683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 170