North’s own paintings appear on the endpapers, fully attesting to her talent.Ī life full of adventure with a lasting legacy. Plenty of backmatter makes this book an excellent starting point both for further research and to teach children how much work goes into creating a nonfiction book. The small print could pose difficulties for young readers reading this book alone, so it’s good that the illustrations’ colors are bright and bold enough for a group read-aloud. A double-page spread of North riding an elephant is exquisite and serene. They depict the White protagonist alone during her travels. She includes almost every shade of green imaginable in her illustrations, which are lush and rich with life both extant and extinct. Stadtlander’s artwork is intricate and full of detail. When she finally ran out of room for her paintings in her own home in London, she opened a museum: the Marianne North Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which was an instant success and is still open today-one of the oldest exhibitions by a woman artist in the world. North spent the majority of her adult life traveling to far-off places. But from her teens, Pop, as she was nicknamed, devoted her life to painting the flora and fauna of our world. Marianne North was dissuaded by her family from playing music, cultivating her artistic talent, and pursuing an education her main job was to find a wealthy husband-someone like her father. An introduction to a prolific painter with a love for all species.
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