The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Giblin, James Cross

The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones and How It Was Solved

99 pp. | HarperCollins | March, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-06-027493-X $$14.95 | Library ISBN 0-06-027494-8 $$14.89

(2) 4-6 Nearly two hundred years ago, before there was any knowledge of dinosaurs, a portrait painter from Philadelphia, Charles Willson Peale, unearthed two fossilized skeletons of an unknown mammoth animal. Illustrated with museum photographs as well as paintings and drawings by Peale and his artist son, the book is a fine blend of science and biography. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Margaret A. Bush | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 1999