Mary Anning's Curiosity

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Synopsis
The amazing story of how the world’s greatest fossilist found her first huge find at the age of twelve.Mary was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, England, to a poor family. She and her older brother were the only two of ten children to survive. Her father, a carpenter and part-time fossil hunter, taught his children to look for fossils.When her father injured himself and was unable to work, Mary quit school and took up fossil hunting full-time to help support her family, a task that became even more important when her father died, leaving the Annings in debt. At the age of twelve, Mary, with her older brother Joe, found what they believed to be the skeleton of a gigantic crocodile, the Great Croc of the legends. Between dodging her rival fossil hunter, the Curiman, and the sheer work of carefully digging out the fossil, Mary took almost a year to excavate what would later be termed the Ichthyosaurus. Mary Anning may have been uneducated, poor and a woman, but her life’s work of fossil hunting led her to make many discoveries that influenced our understanding of prehistoric creatures and the age of the Earth. In 2010, Mary was named among the ten British women who have most influenced the history of science. Charles Darwin even cited Mary’s fossilized creatures as evidence in his book On the Origin of Species. In this triumphant novel about scientific discovery, Monica Kulling brings Mary Anning and her world to life for young readers. Key Text Featuresauthor's notehistorical contextresourcesfactsfurther reading
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
120 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781554988990
Related ISBNs:
9781554988983, 9781554989003
Publisher:
Groundwood Books Ltd
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Monica Kulling
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Children's Books, Science, Animals, Literature and Fiction, Technology
Grade Levels:
Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Seventh grade
Reading Age:
7–12
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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