Worlds afire
By: Paul B. Janeczko.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Fires -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Juvenile poetry; Children's poetry, American; Fires -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Poetry; Circus -- Poetry; American poetry
Genres: Juvenile poetry.; Poetry.
Description: In this collection of eyewitness poems, the excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly 170 people, mostly women and children.