Author:
Woollett, Laura A.
Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2015]
Physical Description167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note:Prologue -- The circus comes to town -- "The greatest show on earth" -- Fire! -- "The day the clowns cried" -- Municipal hospital -- "Who knows this child?" -- Who was to blame? -- Accident or arson? -- A name for Little Miss 1565.
Note:Draws upon primary source documents and survivor interviews to recount the story of one of the worst disasters in American history, the 1944 Hartford circus fire, which claimed the lives of over one hundred people.
