How they Croaked is a morbid book that tells the true ways of how famous people in history died. The book starts off with the death of King Tut and ends with that of Albert Einstein. In total, 19 deaths are discussed within this book. We get to examine how blister beetles were used to treat our first President of the United State, George Washington. The fact of Henry VIII's exploding coffin is one that I had not been aware of, and found hilarious that the author states that James Garfield died from a slow bout of ignorance. The illustrations by Kevin O'Malley are done in black and white but perfectly compliment the text in this non-fiction book.
A book trailer can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_g1DKSH6T8&t=23s
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Readers also enjoyed I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures by Carlyn Beccia and Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead by Rebecca L Johnson
Other books written by Georgia Bragg are How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous and Matisse on the Loose
Bragg, G., & O'Malley, K. (2011). How they croaked: The awful ends of the awfully famous. New York: Walker &.
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