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One of the VERY best biographies for children I've found! I LOVE that this book is about a young girl AND female scientists in the 1800's. This is a great introduction to fossils--plus we love the rhyme at the end--and it's really about this girl who discovered the ichthyosaur, Mary Anning. Great Great Great
Every month the Children's Books group's Picture Books Club reads 6 books that have a theme. July’s topic is dinosaurs. I’d already read the other 5 books when I was finally able to pick up the 6th book today, this book. I’m so grateful this book is one of the selected books because I think it is exceptionally good and I really enjoyed it. It’s the story of an English girl, born in 1799; she lived in Lyme Regis, England, and at a tender age found a fossil of significance, and then went on to dis...
The kids and I are studying Mary Anning. We've read a couple of versions of her story. This one is well-told and illustrated, but not my favorite -- mostly because some of the major points of Mary's story are left out or changed (most curious is her brother's unnecessary absence). But I do appreciate that this one brings in the Philpot Sisters and her dad, which some others do not.2019 - read again. Still annoyed by some of the omissions and liberties the author takes. But, it is a story, not a
Struck by lightning as an infant, Mary Anning was an unusual young girl from the very beginning, but it was her father's gift of a "snakestone," found in the clay cliffs near their home in Lyme Regis, that set her on the path that would truly make her stand out. Fascinated by the beautiful "treasure," she set out to find more, spending so much time on her new hobby that the local children made up a rhyme about her: "Stone girl, Bone girl. Out-on-your-own Girl." Despite the ridicule of her peers,...
A fantastic and accessible story about the life of Many Anning, the female palaeontologist who discovered Ichthyosaurs, Pterosaurs and Plesiosaurs. The book brushes over certain tragedies in Anning’s life, such as the deaths of her father and dog, but this makes the narrative more age-appropriate and keeps the focus on her journey of scientific discoveries.The book has a fair amount of text, alongside beautiful illustrations, making it appropriate for both upper Key Stage One and lower Key Stage...
In Year 5 we are currently covering the topic of Mary Anning, so we used this children's story book which tells of her first Fossil find in 1811 in a child friendly manner.May Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. She got struck by lightning at the age of one then went on to discovered the fossil of an Ichthyosaur. Although this story has been edited to be suitable for children, it has many of the facts embedded in it.The illustrations are good and weird at times but adds to the charact...
Genre: Biography/LKS2 Cross-curricular.The extraordinary real-life tale of Mary Anning's renowned childhood at Lyme Regis in Dorset is retold in this attractive and accessible account targeted at LKS2 readers. We follow Mary's first discovery (a snakestone spotted by her father, Pepper), through her meeting with the Philpot sisters and their collection of fossil 'curiosities' that inspires her to keep treasure-hunting, until her eventual discovery of an entire Ichthyosaur skeleton which renders
“Stone Girl, Bone Girl” is a creative biography of Mary Anning, who is a young paleontologist who loved exploring for “curiosities.” Mary would scavenge the beaches and cliff near her home in Lyme Regis for shells and fossils. She gained her love of fossils from her father when he gave her a snake stone on one of their fossil adventures. Mary Anning meets the Philpot sisters, local scientists who told Mary Anning that her “curiosities” are actually fossils. This encourages Mary Anning to look fo...
Really my four stars are for the story of Mary Anning herself -- the narration is fine but nothing special, and the illustrations, while interesting, seemed a somewhat odd choice to accompany a story set in early-nineteenth-century England.
"Stone Girl, Bone Girl" is a brilliant biography about Mary Anning, who was known for digging up extraordinary fossils back in her day. In this tale, Mary Anning loved digging for strange rocks called "curiosities," but when she meets the Philpot sisters, who were famous scientists, they told Mary that the "curiosities" were actually fossils and that one of the fossils, that belong to a giant sea monster, is the greatest treasure of all. Will Mary find the fossil of the giant sea monster? Read t...
I really enjoyed this book. It was interesting hearing about Mary Anning's life and where her interest in fossils came from. There are interesting elements of bullying and teasing which could be used as great teaching tools.
A little known story about Mary Anning, an English girl who became a paleontologist in the early 1800's.Inspiring as it is a good example of a woman in what was thought of as a man's field in those days.
A fascinating story about Mary Anning, the little girl who survived a lighting strike as a baby and grew to love fossils. She found many along the clay cliffs of Dorset in the early 1800s and sparked a great excitement about the "ancient creatures" eventually finding one of the most important fossil skeletons in history. I think kids fascinated by dinosaurs will be naturally drawn to this story--when I was little, I always wanted to find dinosaur bones and it would have been cool to read about a...
Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning is a wonderful picture book biography of a twelve year old girl and her dog who discover a fossilized full skeleton of an Ichthyosaur in the cliffs above her home in Lyme Regis. The story opens with a dramatic event in which Mary is struck by lightning as a baby. The fictional account of Mary Anning's life creates a comfortable view of family life with her father igniting her passion for all things fossil related. After the death of her father 'Pep...
This is a bittersweet tale about a young girl who helped to discover many different fossils. The sad circumstances of her childhood are certainly disturbing and I would recommend this book for older children. The bullying that she endured was only tempered by the silence of her tormentors when she became famous for her discoveries. I did not know that she was the inspiration for the following tongue twister (I had only ever heard the first line before):She sells seashells by the seashore. The sh...
I do apologise to especially my Goodreads friends who have found Laurence Anholt's (author) and Sheila Moxley's (illustrator) Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning a sweet and engaging tale, but truth be told, I have not much enjoyed the illustrations and have actually and in fact totally and utterly DESPISED the narrative, the story itself, or rather, I should say, the misleading and strangely fantastical manner in which author Laurence Anholt has chosen to present the very much impor...
If I had read this picture book on Mary Anning before the others I have read, it probably would have had a higher rating. However after reading other material about this young self-taught archeologist this reads more like a work of historical fiction than a biography. Several of the “facts” presented were not accurate, making me question all the information given. The most blatant being the appearance and disappearance of her dog and constant companion; who tragically died in a rock slide, not r...
The story of Mary Anning's life, with beautiful striking illustrations. Does not shy away from the issues in her life but equally does not dwell on those issues. Used to teach children about Mary Anning's life, with KS1 i adapted the story as the book is incredibly wordy and would not have held my youngest children's attention. The story itself is more suited to KS2. I kept the illustrations and the children made additional inferences based on these. The older children had a look at the book on
This was a great read! The illustrations were perfectly drawn to set the mood of the story. I found myself right there in the 1800's! I was very intrigued by this story, as I knew nothing about Mary Anning or where Lyme Regis was. I also always wondered about that little rhyme I use to sing as a child and was fascinated to find out where it came from. (She Sells Sea Shells) That is such a hard tongue-twister! There was a lot of information packed in this children's book; from a birth to a death
Goodness we really really loved this book. The illustrations, the story itself, it was beautiful. This story was how the tongue twister “Sea sells seashells by the seashore” came about. That was cool to find out.