About this item
From an award-winning author comes a picture book biography that feels like Indiana Jones for kids!British explorer Percy Fawcett believed that hidden deep within the Amazon rainforest was an ancient city, lost for the ages. Most people didn't even believe this city existed. But if Fawcett could find it, he would be rich and famous forever. This is the true story of one man's thrilling, dangerous journey into the jungle, and what he found on his quest for the lost city of Z.
About the Author
Greg Pizzoli is an author and illustrator of several books, including Baloney and Friends, The Book Hog, This Story is For You, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Templeton Gets His Wish, Number One Sam, The Watermelon Seed, which received the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award and Good Night Owl, which received a Geisel Honor. His nonfiction picture book, Tricky Vic, was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, an Amazon Best Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. He has illustrated books by Mac Barnett, Kelly DiPucchio, Jennifer Adams, and Margaret Wise Brown.Greg Pizzoli lives in Philadelphia.Visit Greg Pizzoli online at www.gregpizzoli.com, and on instagram @gregpizzoli.
