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Bestselling author Dan Gemeinhart's spooky rhyming text pairs perfectly with Hugo L. Cuellar's deviously delightful illustrations to tell a picture book tale about a young baker whose Gingerbread Man creation comes to life with a fright - yet even monsters long for a friend. In his laboratory high on the hill, Frank N. Stine has a ferocious sweet tooth that snarls to be fed. But when an eerie experiment spills into his Gingerbread batter, a frightening...

The award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon-the legacy of P. T. Barnum's “humbug” culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's “fake news.” Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom...