![]() ![]() While a super smart student, Mary quits school despite her mother’s resistance, to pursue her eccentric fossil-hunting father’s passions along the seashore in Lyme Regis. Sadly, young Mary’s father dies following an accident and the family falls into severe debt. She grows up sturdy and strong, and from a young age she follows her dad and brother out onto the beach to hunt for fossils. In the early pages, we meet a poor family, and a father with a passion for finding and selling fossils from the local beach. ![]() These opening lines set the scene for the first of many extraordinary things about Mary Anning. While most of Mary’s siblings die very young, as a baby, Mary herself survives a lightning strike that kills the three adults she is with. Mary Anning’s Curiosity is set over 200 years ago in a small coastal town in the south of England. ![]() People left their tasks to see horses jumping and riders performing stunts. More than two hundred years ago, a traveling fair came to the seaside town of Lyme Regis on the south coast of England. Themes: fossils, paleontology, scientific discovery, mighty girls ![]()
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