In this tale inspired by Messner’s experiences in Monterey Bay in California, a young tan-skinned narrator, along with their light-skinned mom and tan-skinned dad, observes in quiet, lyrical language sights and sounds above and below the sea’s serene surface.
In a new entry in the Over and Under series, a paddleboarder glimpses humpback whales leaping, floats over a populous kelp forest, and explores life on a beach and in a tide pool. (biographical note, sources, source notes, character list) North’s own paintings appear on the endpapers, fully attesting to her talent.Ī life full of adventure with a lasting legacy. Plenty of backmatter makes this book an excellent starting point both for further research and to teach children how much work goes into creating a nonfiction book. The small print could pose difficulties for young readers reading this book alone, so it’s good that the illustrations’ colors are bright and bold enough for a group read-aloud. A double-page spread of North riding an elephant is exquisite and serene. They depict the White protagonist alone during her travels. She includes almost every shade of green imaginable in her illustrations, which are lush and rich with life both extant and extinct. Stadtlander’s artwork is intricate and full of detail. When she finally ran out of room for her paintings in her own home in London, she opened a museum: the Marianne North Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which was an instant success and is still open today-one of the oldest exhibitions by a woman artist in the world. North spent the majority of her adult life traveling to far-off places. But from her teens, Pop, as she was nicknamed, devoted her life to painting the flora and fauna of our world.
Marianne North was dissuaded by her family from playing music, cultivating her artistic talent, and pursuing an education her main job was to find a wealthy husband-someone like her father.
The North gallery at Kew Gardens remains open to the public today.īecca Stadtlander's award-winning lush, verdant artwork pairs wonderfully with the natural themes.An introduction to a prolific painter with a love for all species. Laurie Lawlor deftly chronicles North's life, from her restrictive childhood to her wild world travels to the opening of the Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens to her death in 1890. The legendary Charles Darwin was among her many supporters. Her technique of painting specimens in their natural environment was groundbreaking. In 1882, Marianne North showed the gray city of London paintings of jaw-dropping greenery like they'd never seenĪs a self-taught artist and scientist, Marianne North subverted Victorian gender roles and advanced the field of botanical illustration. The vibrant and daring life of Marianne North by the award-winning author of Super Women and Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World.
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