The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice McGinty Madeline Kloepper look at that weird insect

look at that weird insect

in the den off the master bedroom

First Place (2018)

Informative and delicious for kids and their families

which contributes to their suffering and invisibility

The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice McGinty Madeline Kloepper look at that weird insectAn 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