By: Bryn Barnard
Genre: Informational Nonfiction
Age Range: 4th - 8th. The book is lengthy and has a large amount of print on each page. The subject itself is dark often describing how many people died and how they died.
Content: The book discussing six major epidemics that changed history: The bubonic plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, yellow fever, and influenza. Describing the conditions causing such epidemics to occur, the chaos they caused, how people died, and how they may have come to an end. A glossary full of terms from the book is given in the back of the book.
Organization: The book introduces microbes and the epidemics. Each epidemic is it's own chapter giving descriptions of what happened, how people reacted and how people suffered from it.
Illustrations By: Bryn Barnard. Showing what the individual cell of the disease looked like, maps showing how the epidemics spread and paintings and drawing of those that it caused so much pain.
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