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Summary:

"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves--and detectives--of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa--the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all" -- [Publisher's description]

Table of Contents:

• A star is born
• She's gone
• Tell me, tell me, tell me - The Mona Lisa is nowhere, the Mona Lisa is everywhere
• Everything that is possible to do
• The consummate professional
• Marry or else
• Gigantic figures in human shape
• An improbable series of improbable events
• A wild and perfect pair
• A dangerous woman
• My name is Leonard
• The afterlife.

Author/Creator:

Day, Nick (Nicholas) , author

Contributors:

Helquist, Brett , illustrator

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity [by Day, N.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Mona Lisa vanishes [by Day, N.] (New York : Random House Studio, [2023] — ISBN 9780593643860; LCCN 2023017552)

Subjects:

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 — Mona Lisa — Juvenile literature

Art thefts — France — Paris — Juvenile literature

Painting, Italian — Juvenile literature

Theft from museums — Juvenile literature

Mona Lisa (Leonardo, da Vinci)

Art thefts

Painting, Italian

Theft from museums

France — Paris

Genres:

Creative nonfiction

Juvenile works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Robert F. Sibert Medal, 2024

Audience:

Children
Preteens
Ages: 10-14. (source: Random House Studio)
Grades: 5-9. (source: Random House Studio)

Physical Description:

276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

J364.16 D274mo

ISBNs:

9780593643846 (hardcover)
0593643844 (hardcover)
9780593643853 (library binding)
0593643852 (library binding)
9780593643860 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023017551

OCLC Numbers:

1356890669