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Mack Made Movies
By Brown, Don
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76131-538-4 978-0-76132-504-8
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2003
Gr 2-5 The creator of Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa (Houghton, 2000) brings young readers a new treat-a picture-book biography of the moviemaker who made the Keystone Kops, Fatty Arbuckle, and Charlie Chaplin household names. Brown begins Mack's story on the burlesque stage, with his subject in costume. "In 1900, twenty-year-old Mack Sennett was a horse's rear end." Despite a disappointing career, Mack continued trying various slapstick routines to little avail or acclaim. In 1909, he landed a job with a movie compa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2003
Brown's previous picture-book biographies (Uncommon Traveler, rev. 9/00; Across a Dark and Wild Sea, rev. 5/02) are as appealing as they are accurate; his latest, about pioneering director/producer Mack Sennett, father of silent-movie slapstick comedy, is no exception. The sepia illustrations, executed in a cartoonlike style, are perfectly suited to the subject and tone of the accompanying narrative, which opens with Sennett's vaudevill...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
