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Reviewed on January 1, 1991
Gr 2-6 This historical picture book hits the mark for appropriateness of narration and illustration. The story documents the establishment by Charles Willson Peale of the first American natural-history museum in the Philadelphia of 1794. The Peale family is moving, and the question is how to transport such items as a stuffed bison, large prehistoric bones, and rare plants to their new museum home...Log In or Sign Up to Read More