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Author Staaf, Danna, author.

Title The lady and the octopus : how Jeanne Villepreux-Power invented aquariums and revolutionized marine biology / Danna Staaf.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2022]
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Juvenile Biography  J BIO VILLEPRE    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Juvenile Biography  J BIO VILLEPRE    AVAILABLE
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Description 136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Note Ages 10-18. Carolrhoda Books.
Grades 7-9. Carolrhoda Books.
1220L Lexile
Audience Ages 10-18. Carolrhoda Books.
Grades 7-9. Carolrhoda Books.
Summary "Follow the remarkable journey of Jeanne Villepreux-Power from her childhood in a small French village to her life as a naturalist in nineteenth-century Messina, Sicily, where she conducted groundbreaking research and invented aquariums"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-133) and index.
Subject Villepreux-Power, Jeanne, 1794-1871 -- Juvenile literature.
Women marine biologists -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women naturalists -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women marine biologists -- Juvenile literature.
Women naturalists -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 9781728415772 (library binding)
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