SuitabookKiller history
Clive Gifford
- Reading
- Read in short stretches and pause after especially grisly examples; let your child choose whether to continue, and follow their curiosity towards the historical context.
- Themes
- Death across history: The book surveys customs and stories about death across places and periods, including animal burials in ancient Egypt, the guillotine, poisons and epidemics. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Worth knowing
- Death is central, with material on execution, murder weapons, potent poisons and epidemics; the grisly framing makes these topics an important part of the reading experience.