While perusing the e-shelves on the Libby app I stumbled upon this little gem called Geo Lino Extra. It’s a German Language magazine for kids 8-14, or at least the main GeoLino is, I am not sure about the Extra one. Always interested in how dinosaurs and paleontology are portrayed for kids I took a dive into Die welt für junge Entdeckerinnen und Entdecker (“The World for Young Explorers”) to see what it had to say about Die erste Saurier-Expertin de Welt (“the World’s first dinosaur expert.”) Even though none of Mary Anning’s finds–marine reptiles, pterosaurs, and invertebrates–were technically dinosaurs.

And I wasn’t disappointed. There were many cool dinosaurs across the whole issue. The German title “dinosaurier” just translates to dinosaur, but when you read it in English it promises that it is dinosaurier than other magazines, which it just might be. In fact, it might be the dinosauriest…

The neatest thing included, and why I carved out some time to share it here, is a short vignette on Mary Anning which was accompanied by some absolutely wonderful illustrations by Manuel Kilger.

It’s not text heavy, and there is nothing new in the story if you are already familiar with the life and work of Mary Anning, but, again, the illustrations are just wonderful. If you are interested in what it does say, I dusted off my tested for German prowess and made this very rudimentary translation. I also collected the 6 pages into a 3-page landscape PDF, to cut up these images with a seam would be a crime.

This may be a good place to drop in an essay I wrote about Anning for LadyScience way back in 2015. A news article interview with Lamar University Press about Anning from 2022 while we had our Mother of Dragons exhibition open. (Page 8 of Sooner Horizons Winter 2022-2023).