The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice McGinty wood toys author of A Mother's Heart

author of A Mother's Heart

and The Rialto

One of our favourite books this year-- Embroidery Magazine

This updated version of the classic text includes revised facts and figures for planets and new scientific details

While studying English in college

The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice McGinty wood toys author of A Mother's HeartAn 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