- This item is eligible for our 4-for-3 promotion. Eligible products include select Books and Home & Garden items. Buy any 4 eligible items and get the lowest-priced item free. Here's how (restrictions apply)
| ||||||||||||||||||
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-6-This book falls short of its well-intentioned goal of encouraging girls to consider this field of study. The text begins in the third person, with the author telling about a "Digging Dinosaurs Expedition" in Makoshika State Park, Montana, led by Diane Gabriel. The narrative then shifts to Gabriel's voice as she tells how she became a "dinosaur digger." There are digressions into dinosaur classification and a simplified "three-step scientific method." The book is printed on different shades of fluorescent colored paper in double-page format, with text on the left-hand page and childlike pen-and-ink illustrations on the right. Some of these pictures add a touch of humor, but they are not informative and seem to serve chiefly as fillers. While the book does introduce a woman pursuing this profession, it gives an unclear picture of this specialized field of science as a career option. Even allowing for the generalization required for a brief text, comments on what it takes to be a paleontologist seem simplistic and misleading. Finally, the title itself is ill-chosen. Why not a title that encourages boys as well as girls to read about a paleontologist who is a woman?-Carolyn Angus, The Claremont Graduate School,
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Paleontology Rocks,
A Kid's Review
This review is from: You Can Be a Woman Paleontologist (Paperback)
This book is a good one for a girl, like me, who wants to be a paleontologist. The illustrations are very colorful and it has some pretty good information in it. At the end of the book the author gives some kind of "lesson plans". The author tells you about her own experience as a paleontologist and gives you some ideas on how to decide if this is the right career for you. All in all this is a pretty good book. I think I would recommend it.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
