This book tells the true story of a scientist named Mary Anning. The fossils she found helped invent the science of palaeontology.
This book tells the true story of a scientist named Mary Anning. The fossils she found helped invent the science of palaeontology. If you've heard of Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs or Pterosaurs you already know her work but there's so much that's been hidden or forgotten.
Here's some things you'll discover:
-As a one-year-old, lightning struck Mary but it could not kill her.
-When she was 12 she found the bones of a creature no one had ever seen before.
-In her 16th year, dead people washed up on her favorite beach.
-Her enemies were rich men and landslides - the first called her a liar and the second tried to kill her (a lot).
-One of her friends often ate mice on toast.
This visual biography contains many deaths and one squirrel; a handsome puppy and 200-million-year-old poop.
Deshan Tennekoon is a physically rickety but mentally limber writer from Sri Lanka. His books for Think Equal are taught in schools around the world and lots of 6-year-olds think they’re okay. He wrote for The Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Asian Design and is still recovering from the shock of once being a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. ‘Podi’, a middle-grade graphic novel he co-wrote is forthcoming from Oni Press (2022). His short comics have been published by Image Comics, ShortBox, Inkbrick and in the Eisner and Ignatz-winning anthology Elements: Fire (Beyond Press). He believes in reckless napping as a fine tool for managing his sanity.
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