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Loosely based on the childhood of the America's first female astronomer, Maria Mitchell, this book recounts the longing of a young nineteenth-century woman to gaze at the stars through her father's telescope, instead of sewing and cleaning like other girls.
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About the Author
Deborah Hopkinson's most recent book was A Band of Angels, a Junior Library Guild selection that Kirkus hailed as "inspirational." She is also the author of Birdie's Lighthouse, a Parents' Choice Silver Honor awardwinner, and Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, the recipient of the 1994 International Reading Association award. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Ms. Hopkinson has degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She now looks for comets with her husband and two children from the wheatfields of Walla Walla, Washington.
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This poetic picture book imagines the childhood of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer. Like Hopkinson's previous heroines (Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt; Birdie's Lighthouse), Maria (pronounced ma-RYE-ah) possesses determination, a questioning spirit and a gentle heart. Though Maria helps her mother care for her eight siblings and keeps tidy their home on Nantucket Island in the early 1800s, she never loses her infectious love for the stars, a passion she inherited from her father. When her brother Andrew asks her to run away with him to a life on the sea, Maria determines, "I will be an explorer, but I want to sail the sea of stars." The author plants the seeds for Maria's later accomplishments (the first professor of astronomy at Vassar; a co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Women) in the first-person narrative: "Each constellation is a patchwork of stories/ passed down from the beginning of time." Lanino (The Littlest Angel) augments this powerful image with an equally potent rendering of Maria's rooftop communion with the stars, her eyes wide as the celestial configurations illuminate the sky. The artist closes the distance between earth and stars with the warmth and softness that permeate each illustration. This lilting story, combined with closing notes on both Mitchell and astronomy, will likely ignite further interest in its passionate protagonist. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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- PublisherAtheneum/Anne Schwartz Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0689815018
- ISBN 13 9780689815010
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorLanino Deborah
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