Remarkable Creatures

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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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Remarkable Creatures submitted by barbchristensen on October 6, 2010, 7:56pm If you like historical fiction, fossils, or English history, you will enjoy this book. It gives a great sense of early 19th century England and the main character, Mary Anning, actually discovered important fossils of prehistoric creatures. This is a really interesting book.

Good Historical Fiction submitted by Sara W on June 28, 2011, 9:54am The novel is narrated by a middle-aged spinster whose complicated friendship with Mary Anning develops over their mutual love of fossil-hunting. The story beautifully deals with the time period’s constraints of gender roles and the complexities of social classes.

It was a great look at an overlooked figure whose work contributed to major scientific breakthroughs. Tracy Chevalier’s meticulous research and incorporation of facts in her fiction makes her work all the more readable and enjoyable.