Beccia, Carlyn

Carlyn Beccia made her picture book debut with the captivating Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo? The idea for The Raucous Royals, 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 digging, 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, Car...