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Walker, Sally M.

Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter

48 pp. | Carolrhoda | August, 2000 | Library ISBN 1-57505-425-6 $$19.93

(4) K-3 Carolrhoda On My Own Books series. Illustrated by Phyllis V. Saroff. Mary Anning collected and sold fossils for a living in the early nineteenth century. A self-taught paleontologist, she earned a small amount of scholarly respect for her finds (e.g., the first pterosaur found in England), though her work was generally undervalued. Short sentences create a rather wooden narrative around this well-researched information, and the illustrations are accurate but static. Bib.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian