Displaying 1 of 1 2011 Title: How they croaked : the awful ends of the awfully famous Author: Bragg, Georgia, author. Format: Book Publisher, Date: New York : Walker & Co., 2011. Description: 184 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. Summary: This fascinating collection of remarkable deaths relays all the gory details of how 19 world figures gave up the ghost, including King Tut, Julius Caesar, George Washington, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry VIII. Illustrations. Subjects: Celebrities -- Death -- Juvenile literature. Death -- History -- Juvenile literature. Biography -- Juvenile literature. Celebrities -- Death. Death -- History. Genre: Biographies. Other Author: O'Malley, Kevin, 1961- illustrator. Contents: King Tut : back up the U-haul -- Julius Caesar : I as in ides -- Cleopatra : #1 across -- Christopher Columbus : death by dirt -- Henry VIII : who not to marry -- Elizabeth I : she kept her head about her -- Pocahontas : royal hostage -- Galileo Galilei : staying alive -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : every good boy does fine -- Marie Antoinette : I did not do it on purpose -- George Washington : little mouth of horrors -- Napoleon Bonaparte : I hate islands -- Ludwig van Beethoven : between those ears -- Edgar Allan Poe : oh, woe is Poe -- Charles Dickens : a tale of two brains -- James A. Garfield : James who? -- Charles Darwin : what, me worry? -- Marie Curie : you glow, girl -- Albert Einstein : Einstein=massive cranium? -- One more thing -- Connections. ISBN 9781451774931 Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Find It Map It Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
