Mary Anning (Little People Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Popoy Matigot

In the Little People Big Dreams series, discover the lives of outstanding people from designers and artists to scientists.All of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream. When Mary was little, her family was very poor. She used to help her dad to comb for shells and bones up high on dangerous cliffs. After receiving a book as a gift from a kind benefactor, Mary learned all about fossils. She continued to hunt for them and made the startling discovery of a complete skeleton of an ichthyosaur. Sadly, she wasn’t allowed to study along with all the other men, but she carried on making her own discoveries—including dinosaur poo!—and advising the Geological Society when they needed help. It took a lifetime to receive recognition but we all remember her now as the mother of paleontology.

Isabel Sanchez Vegara was born in Barcelona, Spain, and is a writer and creative director in constant search of new concepts for children's books. Working for more than fifteen years for clients in top advertising agencies, her books combine creativity with learning, aiming to establish a new and fresh relationship between children and pop culture.

Popoy Matigot is an illustrator who has worked on projects for magazines, newspapers, brands and children’s literature. The digital and traditional media she is interested in – including painting, watercolour, pencil and embroidery – speak to her colourful and varied imagination, creating artwork that sits somewhere between poetry and fantasy. Her work invites you to explore this joyful universe and give free rein to your own imagination.

Hardback: 32 pages.

25cm x 20cm.

Age: 5 to 8 Years.

ISBN: 9780711255517.