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David Hill ; illustrated by Phoebe Morris
33 unnumbered pages
colour illustrations
Summary: The true story of New Zealand amateur palaeontologist, Joan Wiffen, whose fossil discoveries proved that dinosaurs lived in ancient New Zealand. As a girl, Joan wanted to know why shells could be found in rocks so far away from the sea. Many years later, she bought an old map and saw that it marked a hoard of dinosaur bones. Nobody had ever found dinosaur fossils in New Zealand before. Top scientists had said it was impossible. But Joan decided to learn everything she could about palaeontology and hunt for these dinosaur fossils