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The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney

40 pp. | Random/S&W | May, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5247-6831-7 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-1-5247-6832-4 $20.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-5247-6833-1
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Elizabeth Haidle. In 1930 London, intellectually curious child Venetia Burney (1918–2009) likens a cold and dark newly discovered planet to god Pluto's underworld. Her name suggestion, via her grandfather, reaches astronomers at Arizona's Lowell Observatory, who unanimously vote to adopt it. The book's illustrations are gray as a British winter, except for flashes of maroon signifying inquisitiveness. An author's note clearly separates fact from conjecture and concludes with a modern connection. Bib.
Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2019

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