Archive for November 20, 2010
REMARKABLE CREATURES by Tracy Chevalier
Mary Anning may be one of the most famous real-life heroines you’ve never heard of. She was the first to discover an ichthyosaurus and complete pterosaur in Lyme, Great Britain, as well as the squaloraja, a transition animal between sharks and rays. he and her older friend Elizabeth Philpot – a middle-age spinster whose fossil fish collection ended up in Oxford – are now given their due in this complex and fascinating novel by Tracy Chevalier.
November 20, 2010
Tags: 19th-Century, Historical Posted in: Class - Race - Gender, Facing History, Reading Guide, Real Event Fiction, Real People Fiction, Time Period Fiction 
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