A T-Rex Named Sue. Dinosaurs and the Women Who Discovered Them
Non-Fiction Children
Were there any female dinosaurs?
Well of course! And there are just as many girls interested in dinosaurs as there are boys. Just for them – and for the boys too – here’s a dinosaur book about all the women who have been instrumental to the progress of palaeontology in the past, and those who still are today: Mary Anning with her marine dinosaur finds at the beginning of the 19th century, adventurer Sue Hendrickson with the T-Rex skeleton named after her, ‘punk palaeontologist’ Jingmai O’Connor with her soft spot for feathered dinosaurs, or Jasmina Wiemann with her high-tech laboratory research...
Birk Grüling and Lucia Zamolo show – and tell – what we now know about dinosaurs thanks to all these women.
- The perennial children’s favourite theme of dinosaurs, combined with portraits of some strong women
- Not your usual pictures: illustrations by Lucia Zamolo
Birk Grüling, is a freelance journalist and dad. With his son, he shares a passion for extinct animals, sunken cultures and crazy inventions. Fortunately, as a science journalist and children’s book author, he can also live out this interest in his professional life.
Lucia Zamolo, studied illustration and communication design in Münster as well as English philology and educational sciences. She works as a freelance illustrator, writer and riso printmaker.
Were there any female dinosaurs?
Well of course! And there are just as many girls interested in dinosaurs as there are boys. Just for them – and for the boys too – here’s a dinosaur book about all the women who have been instrumental to the progress of palaeontology in the past, and those who still are today: Mary Anning with her marine dinosaur finds at the beginning of the 19th century, adventurer Sue Hendrickson with the T-Rex skeleton named after her, ‘punk palaeontologist’ Jingmai O’Connor with her soft spot for feathered dinosaurs, or Jasmina Wiemann with her high-tech laboratory research...
Birk Grüling and Lucia Zamolo show – and tell – what we now know about dinosaurs thanks to all these women.
- The perennial children’s favourite theme of dinosaurs, combined with portraits of some strong women
- Not your usual pictures: illustrations by Lucia Zamolo