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s_a_g_e's review against another edition
5.0
A great depiction of the Monopoly story, with beautiful illustration.
animemiz24's review against another edition
3.0
This is a story book approach to a story of how the Monopoly Board Game was created and how the progression of the game is not how everyone expects the backstory of this board game.
mbrandmaier's review against another edition
5.0
Elizabeth Magie created a game to show the unfairness of landlords buying up all the land and raising rents to make themselves richer while the poor stayed poor having to pay a huge percentage of their wages in rent so they would have a place to live near to the available jobs. Ironically, someone else named Charles Darrow made some small tweaks to the game and passed Monopoly off as his own invention. The Parker Brothers had not wanted to buy Monopoly from either person until Charles Darrow started making money off the game by selling it to Macy's etc. Then when the Parker Brothers tried to buy from Darrow, the issue of the patent came up. The Parker Brothers paid Magie a pittance for her patent and Darrow and the Parker Brothers made a gazillion dollars or thereabouts. A story as American as apple pie. Fun critical thinking and Monopoly math questions at the end.
modernhobbitvibes's review against another edition
4.0
Good book, good summary of some history I didn't know about before! Just also, y'know, depressing and ironic.
thenextgenlibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
I found this book really interesting! I never knew about Monopoly came about and I was super upset to learn the original inventor didn’t get the credit or money she deserved for it.
beths0103's review against another edition
4.0
Hey kids, let’s learn about irony today. Here’s an example: a woman who invented a game to teach people the injustices of capitalism, only to be swindled out of millions of dollars for her own invention so a bunch of greedy men could make that money by asking her to sign off on her patent so they could sell her game.
Oh wait. I better not teach THAT for fear of being accused of being a loser teacher who indoctrinates her students as socialists.
Oh wait. I better not teach THAT for fear of being accused of being a loser teacher who indoctrinates her students as socialists.
victorialynch's review against another edition
4.0
A good story about the classic game with women's history tied in!