Description
Boldness, imagination, and ruthless competition combine on this riveting picture book history of Monopoly, some of the world’s so much 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. Someday she had an idea: create a game that shows the prejudice of the owner-tenant relationship. But game players gave the impression to have probably the most fun pretending to be rich landowners. Enter Charles Darrow, a marketer and salesman with a vision for transforming Lizzie’s game into an exciting staple of American circle of relatives entertainment.
A Christy Ottaviano Book