Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists

5 best books like Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists (Jeannine Atkins): How Long 'til Black Future Month?, A Single Shard, The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science, Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals, Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Author	N.K. Jemisin
ISBN	0316491349

In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian...

A Single Shard

Author	Linda Sue Park
ISBN	0440418518

Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a potters’ village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter’s craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear...

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science

Author	Joyce Sidman
ISBN	0544717139

Robert F. Sibert Medal winner

Bugs, of all kinds, were considered to be “born of mud” and to be “beasts of the devil.”  Why would anyone, let alone a girl, want to study and observe them?

One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was...

Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals

Author	Jess Keating
ISBN	0553512285

Pinkalicious meets National Geographic in this nonfiction picture book introducing the weirdest, wildest, pinkest critters in the animal kingdom!
Some people think pink is a pretty color. A fluffy, sparkly, princess-y color. But it's so much more.
Sure, pink is the color of princesses...

Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian

Author	Margarita Engle
ISBN	0805089373

In the Middle Ages, people believed that insects were evil, born from mud in a process called spontaneous generation. Maria Merian was only a child, but she disagreed. She watched carefully as caterpillars spun themselves cocoons, which opened to reveal summer birds, or butterflies and moths. Maria...