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Karl, get out of the garden! Carolus Linnaeus and the naming of everything

Presents the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who devised the modern classification system for naming plants and animals.

Main Author: Sanchez, Anita, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Stock, Catherine (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2017]
Subjects:
Linné, Carl von, > 1707-1778 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Naturalists > Sweden > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction.
Natural history > Classification > Juvenile nonfiction.
Biographies > Juvenile.
Summary: Presents the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who devised the modern classification system for naming plants and animals.
Physical Description: 47 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47).
ISBN: 9781580896061 (reinforced for library use)
1580896065 (reinforced for library use)
Author Notes: Anita Sanchez is the author of the picture book Leaflets Three, Let it Be!- The Story of Poison Ivy (Boyds Mills), as well as botany and history books for adults. She has taught classes and given workshops on nature and history at the American Museum of Natural History, Colonial Williamsburg, Harvard Natural History Museum, and the New York State Museum. She lives in Amsterdam, New York.

Catherine Stock is the illustrator of more than eighty children's books, including Emily and Carlo and Vinnie and Abraham . After traveling around the globe, she now divides her time between France and New York.

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