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This unique & wise book is an enchanting reflection on the odd travails of childhood. Author & illustrator Renee French has brought her unique visual gift to this tender, ferocious tale. The book was inspired by a display at the Mutter Museum in Phila. at the College of Physicians of Phila. In Dec. 1874, the well-preserved body of a woman was found in a Phila. cemetery that was being relocated. Her fat had turned to adipocere, a waxy substance similar to lye soap that can occur in fat tissues under certain burial conditions. A Phila. physician, Dr. Joseph Leidy, recognized the scientific significance of this form of natural preservation, & got permission to send her body to the Mutter Museum, where it still can be seen.
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Reneé French has been writing and illustrating comic books since 1991. Her drawings have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Salon, and in galleries from New York to Lisbon. Some of her non-drawing interests include: large format photography, volcanology, forensic entomology, and rabbit hypnosis. Her favorite insect is the Rose Weevil. After spending time recently in Tromso, Norway, she now lives quietly in suburban New Jersey with some unspecified organisms.
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- PublisherTop Shelf Productions
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0756794196
- ISBN 13 9780756794194
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages111
- IllustratorRenee French
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