The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day
Hi my name is Kire. I love to read, play volleyball and play my viola
The Mona Lisa Vanishes is a nonfiction book about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre.
The book starts with a guard from the Louvre rushing into the director’s office announcing that the Mona Lisa has vanished from where it should be. This is obviously a shock to everyone in the book and suddenly there is chaos. People are looking everywhere for the Mona Lisa. The book then leaves you wondering what has happened to the Mona Lisa for many chapters because the book goes back in time to explain Leonardo Da Vinci’s life in detail. The book talks about everything from what he did as a kid to all the odd questions he wrote down in his journal. This is the section of the book where I learned all sorts of things about him that I probably wouldn’t ever have known about if I didn’t read this book.
After many chapters learning about Leonardo Da Vinci’s life, the book continues on in detail about the heist of stealing the Mona Lisa. It goes into detail about the detectives and their strategies on how to crack the case of how the Mona Lisa Vanished. At the very end of the book, you finally get to find out how the Mona Lisa was stolen and who was the thief that was able to steal the painting from right under the Louvre’s staff’s noses. The book also goes into detail about the reason the Mona Lisa even became famous, which I found to be quite interesting.
I read this book for the Idaho Battle of the Books (IBOB) and honestly, I didn’t really enjoy it. I think this was probably because I am not a nonfiction reader and often find nonfiction to be boring. Even though I didn’t enjoy reading this book, I think people who are into nonfiction books or people who want to learn about the Mona Lisa, would really enjoy reading this book.
