![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeannine Atkins's sensitive and engaging portrait is strikingly illustrated by Michael Dooling, whose powerful paintings capture young Mary Anning's devotion to her work, and all the joy she found in it. Farrar Straus Giroux, 16.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-3 While Don Brown's Rare Treasure (reviewed above) took a larger view of Mary. But she found out that her discovery was precious and that the painstaking effort to uncover traces of ancient life was profoundly important. Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon Jeannine Atkins. Many months later, Mary Anning still had not unearthed what she only then learned was called a fossil. But what creature was this? Her brother called it a sea dragon. Her father had taught her how to use the tools with which she dug into the sand and scraped at the stones that fell from the cliffs. Weeks of persistent effort yielded a face about four feet long. Mary Anning and The Sea Dragon Mary Anning loved to scour the shores of Lyme Regis, England, where she was born in 1799, for stone sea lilies and shells. She chipped at it with her hammer and chisel until the lines of a tooth emerged-and then those of another tooth. One day, when she was eleven, Mary Anning spotted some markings on a wide, flat stone. And he had taught her how to look, to look hard, for "curiosities." Mary Anning loved to scour the shores of Lyme Regis, England, where she was born in 1799, for stone sea lilies and shells. The girl who found the first sea reptile fossil ![]()
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