A Stroke of Magic: The Dinosaur Woman

A STROKE OF MAGIC, an adventure-filled children’s book, follows 7-year-old Italian-American twins Ella and Alex. One day while visiting Discovery Casa, a retirement home where their mother works as a nurse, they meet 6-year-old Layla. She is an Afro-Panamanian girl there to visit her Abuelita, who tells the three friends that there is a new resident named Art — but nobody knows anything about him because he doesn’t speak to anyone. Curious, Ella, Alex, and Layla go on a mission to find out who he is and soon discover he’s an artist who painted a rather unusual and, at first glance, incorrect painting: three dinosaurs on a beach, with a woman in the background.
What is a woman doing among dinosaurs?
The woman is Mary Anning, the female paleontologist whose findings in England’s Jurassic Coast contributed to the theory of evolution put forth by Charles Darwin and uncovered secrets about dinosaurs. However, many of her discoveries were unfairly credited to male paleontologists because of her gender and, as a result, history has overlooked her pioneering role.
The book is illustrated by Valerio Mazzoli.
The book is published by W. Brand Publishing.
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Brunella Costagliola is an award-winning author, best-selling editor, and translator. Raised in Bacoli, a small coastal town west of Naples, Southern Italy, Brunella is passionate about sharing her home country’s culture, traditions, and history through her stories. Founder and owner of The Military Editor®Agency, LLC, a ghostwriting and editing agency catering to military authors and military-related manuscripts, Brunella helps fellow writers tell their stories and achieve their publishing dreams. A proud Mamma of her two Italian American children, who are an endless source of inspiration for her stories, and devoted Air Force wife to her now-retired husband, Brunella lives in Florida with her family and their three dogs.

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