A fascinating look at the dismembered misadventures of history's most famous body parts, fully illustrated in black and white and perfect for fans of Georgia Bragg's How They Croaked and How They Choked.
Carlyn Beccia (pronounced Betcha) is an author, illustrator, graphic designer, and organ donor who (so far) has kept all her body parts. Beccia's children’s books, including Monstrous: The Lore, Gore, and Science, Who Put the B In the Ballyhoo?, Raucous Royals, and I Feel Better with a Frog In My Throat, have won numerous awards including the Golden Kite Honor, the International Reading Association's Children's and Young Adult Book Award, and the Cybil Award. carlynbeccia.com @carlynbeccia (Instagram)
Frequent black-and-white spot art and snarky footnote asides add
comedy to this already high-interest blend of history and science.
Entertaining and fascinating, with a clever incorporation of STEM
topics.
*Booklist*
Beccia's light, cheeky approach to the subject matter is
tailor-made for a middle-grade audience . . . Readers fond of the
gruesome and grotesque with a heavy dose of humor will find much to
enjoy here.
*Kirkus Reviews*
[A] quirky, clever compendium. . . . The author’s chatty,
irreverent narrative profiles each highlighted luminary and offers
supplementary info on such topics as embalming, phrenology, and
cryonics--and ample doses of downright creepy, kid-pleasing
trivia.
*Publishers Weekly*
An equal mix of history, science, and biography, the . . . text is
straightforward and logical; the tone light and entertaining.
Interesting black-and-white, hand-drawn illustrations perfectly
mirror the content and tone. Well-researched.
*VOYA*
This topic is one that has perpetual appeal to middle school
readers.
*School Library Journal*
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