![]() Science is filled with Merian's stunningly detailed and colorfulīotanical drawings created more than 300 years ago. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed The Dutch colony of Surinam, where her observations led to her grandestĪccomplishment: publishing her own volume on the insects of the South Insect's life cycle, she sketched and recorded their stages ofĭevelopment and the plants they ate. Incessantly, with a fervor many thought odd. Still, she managed toĪbsorb her father's business knowledge and paired it with her World of opportunity for a young girl in her day. Merian was born to a family of printers, but life wasn't a ![]() Yet Newbery Honor winner Joyce Sidman has painted a stunningly beautifulĪnd accessible portrait of the relatively unknown scientific illustrator ISBN 9780544717138 eBook available Ages 10 to 12Ī 17th-century German girl with a passion for caterpillars andīutterflies may seem like an obscure topic for a children's book, THE GIRL WHO DREW BUTTERFLIES By Joyce Sidman HMH $17.99, 160 pages ![]() APA style: THE GIRL WHO DREW BUTTERFLIES.THE GIRL WHO DREW BUTTERFLIES." Retrieved from While each chapter heading of Joyce Sidman's The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Marian's Art Changed Science features one of Sidman's signature (and as usual quite simply exquisite and magical) poems, I for one did not even really notice them all that much at first (simply because I was and yes remain so enchanted and delighted with and by the main narrartive, with the author's concise. ![]()
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