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# 9780374348403 MARY ANNING AND THE SEA DRAGON by Jeannine Atkins Mary Anning loved to scour the shores of Lyme Regis, England, where she was born in 1799, for stone sea lilies and shells. Her father had taught her how to use the tools with which she dug into the sand and scraped at the stones that fell from the cliffs. And he had taught her how to look, to look hard. An account of the finding of the first entire skeleton of an ichthyosaur, an extinct sea reptile, by a twelve-year-old English girl who went on to become a paleontologist. Farrar Straus Giroux. 32 pages, 22.5 x 30.0 cm, hardcover, ages 4 - 8, 1999. Retail: $16.00 My Price: $4.95