by Georgia Bragg, Kevin O'Malley, L.J. Ganser
How They Croaked is written with a light-hearted tone; Bragg is able to embed humor whilst detailing the gruesome deaths of history’s most famous figures. Boys who are drawn to gory, disgusting tales will certainly not be let down. They will have much delight when they read each chapter like that o...
While I have been a book devourer for all my life, I've known lots of people who were 'reluctant readers'. So, particularly concerning children's and young adult literature, I look for books that will tempt a child to pick up a book. That is one of the reasons I love graphic novels so much, people o...
While I thought Bragg peppered each section with too much biography, there were a lot of long bits about illnesses and other suffering that kept the tone mostly consistent with the title. I took this book to a big literacy meeting to share, and got a lot of 'oh, that's nice' looks when I shared it. ...
Way cool. And not as gross as it could have been.
This book was so much fun! It's simultaneously breezy and gross, and I think it will be embraced with glee by young teens. There's plenty of fabulously arcane information mixed in with the obligatory exploding corpses, blistering plasters, lead poisoning and leeches. Covers lots of famous deaders, f...
6/28/11 ** NPR suggestion & 5 Star by Tony Keefer (GR friend): http://www.npr.org/2011/03/12/134468072/the-famous-meet-gory-ends-in-how-they-croaked
See my forthcoming review in Kirkus.
2011 October 4 One of the things usually left out of children's books is dying. Not death, characters are dead all the time, but the miserable, painful, agonizing bit of dying is usually glossed over. But kids like the gross, the agonizing, the unbelievable "who thought that was a good idea?" craz...
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