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Author Keating, Jess, author.

Title The girl who built an ocean : an artist, an argonaut, and the true story of the world's first aquarium / [text] Jess Keating ; [jacket art and interior illustrations] Michelle Mee Nutter.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022]
©2022

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  JB VILLEPREUX-POWER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  JB VILLEPREUZ-POWER    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 578.77 VILLEPREUX-POWER    DUE 12-15-26
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  JB-VILLEPREUX-POWER, J.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Note "This is a Borzoi Book"
Summary "The inspiring tale of a seamstress-turned-scientist who invented the world's first aquarium at a time when women in STEM were startlingly rare."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Villepreux-Power, Jeanne, 1794-1871 -- Juvenile literature.
Women marine biologists -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Marine biologists -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Aquariums -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Marine biology -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Women tailors -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Octopuses -- Juvenile literature.
Women marine biologists.
Aquariums.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Marine biology.
Genre/Form Picture books.
Added Author Nutter, Michelle Mee, illustrator.
Added Title Artist, an argonaut, & the true story of the world's first aquarium
ISBN 9780593305119 (hardcover)
0593305116 (hardcover)
9780593305133 (ebook)
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