P/K Book Group
The Mona Lisa Vanishes
Thursday, February 12
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Brigham City Library
Rooms 1&2 (Combined)Book club for kids and their parents. Includes a book to read and a treat to share.
Parent/Kid book group is a monthly book club for kids, ages 7-16, and their grownups. All adults must be accompanied by a child. Themed snacks provided. Register here, then pick up a copy of the book from the library front desk. See the list of upcoming books at https://library.bcutah.gov/pk.
Book Description
On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c’est partie ! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone!
No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?
Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves—and detectives—of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa —the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all.
Brigham City Library
The Brigham City Public Library is located between Main Street and 100 East, northeast of the old courthouse.