Find out what goes on behind the scenes at a natural history museum in this illustrated non-fiction story by tour guide Dustin Growick.
This gentle story is an ideal gift shop purchase for kids who have enjoyed a trip around a science museum. It follows the exploits of several characters – including a family, a school trip, and some security guards – over the course of a busy day. Along the way readers will discover how the museum team put on exhibitions and how dinosaur fossils are carefully preserved. They will also gain access to the incredible vaults underground that store 99% of a museum’s collections!
Stunning illustrations by Laura Martín bring the world of a museum to life – from the high-vaulted ceilings of the entrance hall to the planetarium – with plenty of things to spot in the illustrations for eagle-eyed readers.
By the end of the book kids will have a newfound respect for all of the work that goes on to make every museum experience memorable.
This is Book 3 in the The Inside Story Series. See all The Inside Story books here.
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Dustin Growick is a science instructor at the New York Hall of Science, who presents a show on YouTube called 'The Dinosaur Show with Dustin Growick'. He is also Director of Dinosaur Studies for Museum Hack, and regularly takes people on tours of the American Museum of Natural History.
More about Dustin GrowickLaura Martin believes in chasing her dreams, and she brought that philosophy to her classroom for six years as a seventh-grade English teacher. This is Laura's first novel-and a dream come true. When she isn't writing stories about dinosaurs and underground civilizations, she can be found in Zionsville, Indiana, with her dashing husband, Josh, her adora
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