The stone giant
Subtitle: a hoax that fooled America
By: by Natalie Standiford ; illustrated by Bob Doucet.
Contributors: Doucet, Bob, ill.
Series: Road to reading.
Publisher: Golden Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Cardiff giant -- Juvenile literature.; Forgery of antiquities -- New York (State) -- Cardiff -- Juvenile literature.; Cardiff giant.; Swindlers and swindling.; Cardiff (N.Y.) -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Describes 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 in 1869.