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The Girl Who Named Pluto

The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney | Alice B. McGinty

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An empowering, inspiring--and accessible!--nonfiction picture book about the eleven-year-old girl who actually named the newly discovered Pluto in 1930. When Venetia Burney's grandfather reads aloud from the newspaper about a new discovery--a "ninth major planet" that has yet to be named--her eleven-year-old mind starts whirring. She is studying the planets in school and loves Roman mythology. "It might be called Pluto," she says, thinking of the dark underworld. Grandfather loves the idea and contacts his friend at London's Royal Astronomical Society, who writes to scientists at the Lowell Observatory in Massachusetts, where Pluto was discovered. After a vote, the scientists agree unanimously: Pluto is the perfect name for the dark, cold planet. Here is a picture book perfect for STEM units and for all children--particularly girls--who have ever dreamed of becoming a scientist.

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Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney | Alice B McGinty

#VolumesAndVocals Day 16: The picturebook biography I am holding has #RocketManEltonJohn feels to it. Taken at the House of Wisdom in Sharjah as my undergraduate students (and PhD student who took the we-fie) and I do our data collection around libraries here in the UAE as we build a UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Diverse Picturebook list. More here: https://gatheringbooks.org/un-sdg-booklist/

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The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney | Alice B. McGinty

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Excellent #nonfictionpicturebook about #VenetiaBurney, a little girl who loved astronomy AND stories, and who thought Pluto would be a great name for the newest planet. Includes an author‘s note and selected bibliography. #ScienceStories

Written by #AliceBMcGinty
Illustrated by #ElizabethHaidle

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The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney | Alice B. McGinty

Bought this at a children‘s bookshop in WA last summer because I still read children‘s books, and they‘re valuable in a middle school classroom, always. This week is our service week, and we are promoting human rights and education; I volunteered to read this book on Instagram for charity, and I couldn‘t be happier with the book I chose to bring back to🇭🇰. It‘s an incredible story. #womeninScience #motivational #progress

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