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Barmy Biogs looks at the life stories of the most kooky, eccentric and downright barmy characters throughout the course of world history!

Table of Contents
  • 1: Rivera - Tall tales
  • 2: van Gogh - Who needs ears anyway?
  • 3: Byron - Animal magic
  • 4: Dickens - An obsession with death
  • 5: Dickinson - The writer who never left the house
  • 6: Eliot - The writer who loved practical jokes
  • 7: Carroll - The word inventor
  • 8: Twain - The first stand-up comedian
  • 9: Christie - The writer who never wrote a single word
  • 10: da Vinci - The painter who was obsessed with the war
  • 11: Wilde - The man who dressed as a woman
  • 12: Tolkien - The writer who thought he was a Hobbit
  • 13: Fitzgerald - The writer who hated his feet

Barmy Biogs Potty Painters Writers other Barmy

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    A Paperback / softback by Adam Sutherland

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      Publisher Hachette Children's Group
      Published 10 November 2016
      ISBN-13 9780750283786
      978-0750283786
      ISBN-10 0750283785

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Barmy Biogs looks at the life stories of the most kooky, eccentric and downright barmy characters throughout the course of world history!

      Table of Contents
      • 1: Rivera - Tall tales
      • 2: van Gogh - Who needs ears anyway?
      • 3: Byron - Animal magic
      • 4: Dickens - An obsession with death
      • 5: Dickinson - The writer who never left the house
      • 6: Eliot - The writer who loved practical jokes
      • 7: Carroll - The word inventor
      • 8: Twain - The first stand-up comedian
      • 9: Christie - The writer who never wrote a single word
      • 10: da Vinci - The painter who was obsessed with the war
      • 11: Wilde - The man who dressed as a woman
      • 12: Tolkien - The writer who thought he was a Hobbit
      • 13: Fitzgerald - The writer who hated his feet

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