The text feels a bit disjointed. ( )

After losing her mother when she was a little girl, Anna Atkins was raised by her father, a scientific passionate. Along with him, she received an education that very few girls received at the time : chemistry, physics, zoology, botany and biology were part of her daily teaching. Fascinated by nature, Anna Atkins became a biologist and recorded the natural world in detailed illustrations, engravings and later cyanotype photographs, creating the first book of photographs.

This children's book is extremely beautiful. The illustrations are delicate and poetic, all of them being in blue tones. A touch of red and yellow emphasizes certain parts of the picture, following the story.

I didn’t know about Anna Atkins before reading this beautiful biography. I am highly impressed by all the research done by Fiona Robinson for the creation of this book. She explains in simple words various scientific terms and how Anna Atkins’ ambitions were extraordinary for the time period, weaving together history, science and art. ( )

I really enjoyed this book and thought it was really informative. This book is about a girl named Anna who was really interested in plants and flowers and her dad was a scientist. She went on to use photography to document the different plants she collected. This book also included dates of when these things occurred so I really liked this aspect of the book. This would be a good book for mid-primary students, 2nd grade and up because it is a long book and it has some Latin in the book to describe the plants.

I thought this book was a difficult read. The arrangement of the text, font choice along with the illustrations were really hard to follow and it did not help that the entire book was in several repeated variations of blue. The information regarding Anna Atkins relationship with her father and how his guidance developed her interest in science was fair at best but the connections that lead her to becoming a botanist weren't clear enough. The illustrations and color choices were actually nauseating and in my opinion, a really bad choice bordering on inconsideration. ( )

This biography is about a botanist and photographer named Anna Atkins who lived in late 1700's to mid 1800's. It tells the story about how she became interested in plant life and shells as a child who was encouraged by her father. The illustrations in this book are mostly blue and deal with her photographing with the cyanotype photography. It is a good history book in that it talks about a woman who made a living with the combination of art and science to make beautiful specimen photographs and catalogues. ( )