Smallpox: How a Pox Changed History

by Janie Havemeyer

For thousands of years, smallpox was one of the world's most feared diseases. Read this book to learn more about the history of this infectious disease.

32 pages, Library Binding

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Janie Havemeyer has worked as a museum educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, an elementary school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a social studies curriculum designer. For the past six years, she has been working as a literacy tutor. She writes narrative, nonfiction picture books for children, and is busy thinking about the next eccentric character whose story she wants to tell.