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The Fossil Girl
Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery
By Brighton, Catherine
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76131-468-4
- Publisher
- Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, 1999.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1999
Gr 2-4 In this bicentennial year of Anning's birth, Brighton presents a comic-strip style account of the British paleontologist's legendary childhood discovery of the first ichthyosaur skeleton. Like Laurence Anholt, whose picture book biography tells Mary's childhood in Stone Girl, Bone Girl (Orchard, 1999), Brighton fictionalizes in re-creating the amazing find. Her spare telling features a determined, somewhat older-looking Mary, her brother Joe, and their widowed mother, whose modest seaside home and curiosity shop are battered one stormy night. While Mary and Joe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
