Charlotte's Bones: The Beluga Whale in a Farmer's Field (Tilbury House Nature Book, Band 0) - Softcover

Rounds, Erin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884488608 ISBN 13: 9780884488606

Verlag: TILBURY HOUSE PUBL, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

In 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer s field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale s skeleton have been buried so far from the ocean? The answer that Lake Champlain had once been an arm of the sea encouraged radical new thinking about geological time scales and animal evolution. Charlotte s Bones

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

ERIN ROUNDS is a mom and a fourth-grade ELA and social studies teacher. A writer since grade school, she strives to teach her students to find and share their stories, because you never know what you might find when you dig deep and stop to observe what lies beneath. Charlotte's Bones is her first published work.

ALISON CARVER studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and biology at Oberlin College and Swansea University. She designs and illustrates publications, displays, and sets for ecological, theatrical, and historical organizations including the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands, the New Jersey Pinelands Preservation Alliance, Friends of Colonial Pemaquid, and the Opera Festival of New Jersey. Charlotte's Bones is her first full-color illustrated book project.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TILBURY HOUSE PUBL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0884488608
• ISBN 13: 9780884488606
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Carver Alison
• Anzahl der Seiten: 36
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar