Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Before, during, and for some time after I wrote the picture book, Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon (FSG, 1999), I read as much about the fossil-hunter as I could find. Since she grew up in the first decade of the 1800s, one of many children in a poor family on the coast of England, she never learned to read or write very well, and most of what we know about her is hearsay passed down from scientists who bought the fossils she collected. Many of her finds are now displayed in the British Museum ...