SuitabookFossil hunters and evidence
The book brings together facts about fossil hunting and accounts of palaeontologists, including Mary Anning, Gideon Mantell and Jack Horner.Exploratory / explanatoryExploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.Exploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.How the book presents it: Its structure combines factual material with fictionalised first-person accounts, offering both information and narrative rather than a purely factual account.
Talk about: How do the factual sections and the palaeontologists’ stories contribute differently to the reader’s understanding?