The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery [Paperback]

Catherine Brighton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 23, 2007 | Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up

It's 1811. Ten-year-old Mary Anning, her brother Joe, and their widowed mother are eking out a meager existence running a little fossil shop in the seaside town of Lyme Regis. After a storm wipes out most of the shop’s merchandise, Mary and Joe begin the slow work of restocking the shelves. They search high and low for fossils, and one day Mary spots a huge eye in a cliff face high above the town. She resolves to bring the creature down — no matter what the risk. The exciting discovery and recovery of the first complete fossil of an Ichthyosaurus is told in an attractive graphic novel format, perfect for reluctant readers.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Brighton breathes life into a wonderful story. PRS

About the Author

Catherine Brighton trained at St Martin's College of Art and the Royal College of Art. She has held exhibitions of her work in the Barbican, London, at the Bath Festival, and at a Southern Arts travelling exhibition. She is now a successful full-time author/illustrator of children's books. She lives in London.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books (July 23, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845077326
• ISBN-13: 978-1845077327
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.3 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #547,396 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #12 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Nature > Fossils
  • #39 in Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Nature > Fossils
  • #90 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Animals > Dinosaurs > Nonfiction

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Different Take on Mary Anning, January 8, 2008

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Jilly ILLY "Jill" (SI, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery (Paperback)

This picture book about Mary Anning is written in large comic book format. It opens when Mary is twelve and her father has already passed away. It lets the reader in on some information that they might not have gotten from other books on the same topic, for example, Mary searched for fossils with her brother Joe and he was the one who originally found the ichthyosaur in the cliff. I had one thing about the book that bothered me and that was an illustration showing Mary lowering a large part of the fossil she was excavating from a tower she was standing on. Even my pre-school aged children thought that this was a bit of a stretch as the piece shown must have been quite heavy. While this book provides interesting details ommitted from other books, it is still my second pick on the the subject of Mary Anning with my first choice being Stone Girl, Bone Girl.