{"product_id":"the-deep-dish-on-pizza-ready-to-read-level-3-9781481420556","title":"The Deep Dish on Pizza!: Ready-To-Read Level 3","description":"\u003cb\u003eChow down on a slice of history in this fact-tastic nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read all about pizza, part of a series about the history of fun stuff!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDid you know that two thousand years ago, the soldiers of Darius the Great used their shields to cook a pizza-like flatbread? Or that Americans eat approximately 350 slices of pizza per second? That adds up to more than seventy-five football fields of pizza each day! Learn all about the mouthwatering history of pizza in this fun, fact-filled book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA special section at the back of the book includes relevant info on subjects like geography and science, and there's even a fun quiz so you can test yourself to see what you've learned!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Krensky is the author of more than a hundred books for children, including \u003ci\u003eHow Santa Got His Job\u003c\/i\u003e (an ALA Notable Book) and \u003ci\u003eBig Bad Wolves at School\u003c\/i\u003e. He and his wife, Joan, live in Lexington, Massachusetts. You can visit him at StephenKrensky.com. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSaturday morning cartoons and lounge music, big-time wrestling and creature movies, bowling alleys and flying saucers, kitschy fun parks and the Ramones, diners, Dino-Land, Dean Martin-these are just a few of \u003cb\u003eDaniel Guidera\u003c\/b\u003e's favorite things that inspire his signature \u003cb\u003eIllustration-A-Go-Go!\u003c\/b\u003e style. His work has appeared in venues such as \u003ci\u003eMAD Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, Topps baseball cards, cookie boxes, in-flight magazines, great metropolitan newspapers, technology magazines and grade school textbooks. Most recently, Daniel had immense fun creating illustrations for the iPad e-book app My Dad Drives A Roller Coaster Car, currently available in the iTunes store. He's won awards, but then, so has everybody.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon Spotlight","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50643413106962,"sku":"9781481420556","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fa5cf372-1857-46cc-b926-f3b99b84c228.jpg?v=1733085118","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-deep-dish-on-pizza-ready-to-read-level-3-9781481420556","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}