How They Croaked, Georgia Bragg
How They Croaked, Georgia Bragg
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How They Croaked
The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

Author: Georgia Bragg

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 3 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/29/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, History


Synopsis

Best-selling author Georgia Bragg delights young people with her quirky characters and unique subject matter. How They Croaked provides all the gory details of the awful ends of 19 awfully famous people. It details Ludwig Van Beethoven's expansive finale, Henry VII's explosive end, Albert Einstein's great brain escape, and Marie Curie's glowing demise. "This . study deserves the wild popularity it will without doubt acquire." -Booklist, starred review

Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda on December 09, 2020

Remember when you watched Bambi for the first time and you got to the part where Bambi's mother died...And in that second you realized that if Bambi's mom can die, so can everybody else.People have lived and they have died. And before the modern era, they died a lot easier. Seriously, there were A......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 02, 2016

This was a fun, light-hearted look at how many famous people died, but also how they lived & what they accomplished - why they were remembered. Suitable for the YA crowd or even a bit younger. Certainly not a complete history, but never boring. I could see this sparking a lot of interest in kids.......more

Goodreads review by Terri on January 20, 2013

I have no doubt that students will like this book, but I found it annoying for several reasons. First, I have a problem with information books that fail to clearly cite sources for stated facts, and especially with those that share misinformation! This book does both, and I am seriously pondering wh......more