The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science Manuscripts and Hippolyte Taine

and Hippolyte Taine

and even the king himself

let alone a girl

and one of the finest art collections in America

Daisy Buchanan

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science Manuscripts and Hippolyte TaineIn 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