12/31/2023 0 Comments Kids library books imagesYet when it hatches, it’s still spherical. What are you doing? Are you sinking?” Painted a luminous golden brown against a sea of black, the egg sinks down, more than a mile. He starts with a shot of a single, solitary egg. Because Matt Lilley does not begin where you might expect him to. That is also why I found GOOD EATING to be so delightful. Therein begins and ends what I knew about the little buggers. Whales eat them by the truckload but they’re small. They are important to the oceans from an environmental standpoint and 2. If you’re an adult like myself then you may know roundabout two facts about krill: 1. My true appreciation of a work of nonfiction for younger readers never burns brighter than when I am able to take a book, look it right in the eye, and say, “GAAAAHHH! NATURE IS SO WEIRD!!!” And friends, I am delighted to say that this little book by Lilley and Tavis, gave me that warm panicked feeling in my belly I always strive for. Can we get that info in all our books about cool jobs, please? Oh! And I LOVED LOVED LOVED the part that actually gives you practical information on how to become a paleontologist. Wicks wasn’t making up stuff (Google it yourself if you don’t believe me). It was so weird looking that I had to Google it, just to make sure Ms. Extra points for the endpapers (where you can see the creatures as fossils at the front and as they would have looked at the end) and for the images of “Mary’s Dragons” particularly the Dimorphodon macronyx. It’s a really neat story, not just about ancient fossils and paleontology, but also citizen science, the role of women, lack of attribution, and history itself. But let’s not give short shrift to Sarah Glenn Marsh! She does an excellent job of laying out not simply Mary’s life but also what the scientific community owes to her industrious nature. I love her style and how her seemingly simple art captures expressions and personalities so well. Oh, I LIKED this! Now admittedly this might partly be because I remember illustrator Maris Wicks from one of my favorite camping picture books Yes, Let’s. But since she just keep digging up bigger, more impressive ancient sea creatures, what we know now would have been completely different without her. Since she was born in 1799, no one would have expected Mary Anning to be remembered as the mother of paleontology.
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