Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo?

Carlyn Beccia makes her children's book debut with "Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo?" She has a background in graphic design and advertising and has always been fascinated by vintage circus advertisements. Her grandfather set type for a living, and she used to go through his old type books and study the careful way he drew letterforms.The idea for this, her second book, came after a trip to Paris. "I went to Versailles," she writes, "and discovered that Marie Antoinette never said her infamous line 'Let them eat cake.' Then I remembered also believing that Anne Boleyn had six fingers. After much diging, I discovered that one of her biographers after her death said she had an extra nail. A nail isn't a finger. That discovery led to another rumor and then another..." Besides painting, drawing, and researching royalty, Carlyn enjoys salsa dancing, horseback riding, and raucous games of badminton with her husband. She lives in Lynnfield, Massachusetts.Beccia, Carlyn is the author of 'Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo? ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780618717187 and ISBN 0618717188.