This book is really great. The writing is superb and highly poetic in nature. It is pretty sophisticated writing for a children's book, so it might be difficult to hold children's attention with it, but I really enjoyed reading it. It retells the story of the man who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in France. He stole it as an act of patriotism for his home country of Italy. When he took the work to his home country, expecting to be a hero, he ended up getting put in jail and the painting returned to France. Some asthetics about this book that I believe deserve mentioning are the font and the way the pictures are framed onto a white background like paintings. It makes for a very sleek and beautiful book.
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