Why they croaked

Great audiobook. The narrator was very engaging, great story teller. Love the details and the how-tos. Fun facts! I loved all the interesting details. Nice work describing and humanizing historical figures that very often get idolized.

Great book! I loved the narrator and the stories. The whole time I was just on the edge of my seat! This was enlightening about the lives and the time these famous people lived. The writer and narrator were good and kept my attention and focus. Though it deals with death it gives us an insight into these people's lives and I learned a lot from it. It felt like it took me there this book is amazing I loved it so much and now my summer reading is done.

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Please try again. Follow podcast failed. Unfollow podcast failed. I read much of it aloud to Natasha, with her selecting people at random.

Then she finished up on her own. Then Veronica read it. Now, finally, I've read it straight through. My only complaint with the whole thing was that she waits until the end of the section on Napoleon to tell the reader that really, he wasn't short for his time 5'7" , although admittedly, he wasn't unusually tall like, say, George Washington 6'3".

Fun for the whole family. A little gross at times, but morbidly fascinating. Great middle grade potential with exactly the sort of kids you'd expect to pick up a book with a skeleton on the cover. Author 6 books 1, followers. 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. Jake Fujihara. My personal favorite was the story of Albert Einstein. All of the other stories were about how they died, but Einstein's was about after he died.

It was mainly about what happened to his brain, and the story was quite interesting and very descriptive. I also enjoyed how Georgia Bragg used so many replacements for the words "death" and "dead". Instead she used words such as "croaked", "kicked the bucket", and "said his last words". She never just came out said "He was dead now. Compared to Bragg's other works, this one stands out.

She only has one other book, though: "Matisse on the Loose" and it's definitely more of a comedy. The format was in min-chapters, each one focusing on one person. Along with the format, the focus was unique too. Not many authors decide to write a book about the grotesque deaths of famous people. But hey: We all have our hobbies, right?

Overall, this was great book, and I enjoyed reading it. I would recommend this book to any middle school student! 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! World-whizzing Facts. Emily Grossman. Kate Pankhurst. Boy from Buchenwald. Robbie Waisman.

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