The Cardiff Giant
By: Sharon Sigmond Shebar and Judith Schoder ; illustrated by Dave Sullivan.
Contributors: Schoder, Judith.; Sullivan, Dave, ill.
Publisher: J. Messner
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Cardiff giant -- Juvenile literature.; Forgery of antiquities -- New York (State) -- Juvenile literature.; Cardiff giant.; Swindlers and swindling.; Cardiff (N.Y.) -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.; New York (State) -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
Description: Briefly discusses the Cardiff Giant hoax in which people of upstate New York were fooled into believing that the petrified form of a giant human being had been uncovered from the ground on October 16, 1869.
Notes: "A JEM book."