Mack Made Movies

Don Brown, . . Roaring Brook, $6.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-1-59643-091-4

"With the clipped, staccato delivery of a vaudeville act, this breezy narrative unspools the biography of Mack Sennett, who started out as the hindquarters of a horse and wound up the head of a major Hollywood studio," wrote PW in a starred review. Ages 5-9. (Aug.)

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