Horribly Famous: Al Capone and his Gang Award-winning team by Alan MacDonald (author) and Philip Reeve (illustrator)

You’ve probably heard of Al Capone. He is dead famous for: being handy with a machine gun, having one or two scars and hanging around with a rather nasty gang. But did you know that Al lived with his mum all his life, was a trend-setter in banana-coloured suits, and went bananas in Alcatraz prison?

Product Details

Series

Horribly Famous

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407124117

Date published

August 4th, 2011

Other details

192 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

Horribly Famous

Author/Illustrator

Alan MacDonald

Alan MacDonald lives in Nottingham. He writes both non-fiction and fiction as well as writing for radio and TV. He has a particularly good track record for writing page-turning and accessible historical books.

Philip Reeve

Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for years while also producing and directing a number of no-budget theatre projects.

Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons and jokes for around forty books, including the best-selling Scholastic series Horrible Histories, as well as Murderous Maths and Dead Famous. Read more