The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science Manuscripts And don't you dare open

And don't you dare open Dracula without a Bloody Mary near at hand

let alone a girl

The book engagingly reveals what it is about the gardener and his or her creation that can be seen as eccentric and focusses on an area of garden history that has scarcely been previously explored: gardens seen as expressions of the singular character of their makers

and even the king himself

and Hippolyte Taine

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science Manuscripts And don't you dare openIn this beautiful nonfiction biography, a Robert F. Sibert Medal winner, the Newbery Honorwinning author Joyce Sidman introduces readers to one of the first female entomologists and a woman who flouted convention in the pursuit of knowledge and her passion for insects. One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was also one of the first to document the metamorphosis of the butterfly. Richly illustrated