Mary Anning’s Grewsome Beasts

This book tells the true story of a scientist named Mary Anning. The fossils she found helped invent the science of palaeontology. If you’ve heard of Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs or Pterosaurs you already know her work but there’s so much that’s been hidden or forgotten.

Deshan Tennekoon is a physically rickety but mentally limberwriter from Sri Lanka. His books for Think Equal are taught in schools aroundthe world and lots of 6-year-olds think they’re okay. He wrote for The BloomsburyEncyclopaedia of Asian Design and is still recovering from the shock ofonce being a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. ‘Podi’, a middle-grade graphic novel heco-wrote is forthcoming from Oni Press (2022). His short comics have beenpublished by Image Comics, ShortBox, Inkbrick and in the Eisner and Ignatzwinninganthology Elements: Fire (Beyond Press). He believes in recklessnapping as a fine tool for managing his sanity. Linki Brand is a South African children’s book illustrator. She completed a BA degree in Graphic Design at the North West University, Potchefstroom. Linki has illustrated numerous children’s books (including a few cover designs for young adult literature) that were published by LAPA Publishers – a division of Penguin Random House South Africa. In addition to that she illustrated books for Think Equal (United Kingdom) for their global SEE Learning programme (Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning). A mini comic strip has also been published by Image Comics Inc. In 2019 I was the sole Graphic Designer for an exhibition compiled by the University of Huddersfield and Leeds Beckett University. Linki is currently living and working in Bergen, Norway with her husband, Werner, and children Fia, Ben and Lukas.