Mary Anning and The Sea Dragon

By Jeannine Atkins, Michael C. Dooling (illustrator),

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Over two hundred years ago, a young girl discovers a fossil, and begins a lifelong vocation that earns her a place in history. "The patience and dogged determination of the unconventional Mary shines through, making her story one not only for dinosaur-lovers, but for those appreciate stories of strong girls…

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Sigrid Schmalzer

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In more recent years, Jeannine Atkins has given us the beautifully written “novels-in-verse” Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science and Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math. The richly illustrated picture book Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon is one of Atkins’s earlier efforts to showcase the contributions women and girls have made to science. The story of Mary Anning is also important for what it tells us about the role of working-class people in the history of science. Mary’s father had been a carpenter until his untimely death, and the family supplemented their meager income by selling “curiosities”…

From Sigrid's list on inspirational scientists for children.