Pictures of the Week: Huck Scarry at Book Launch for 'Best Lowly Worm Ever'; Lonesome George Unveiled

by SLJ
Sep 19, 2014 | Filed in News & Features
Huck Scarry presents a new and never before seen picture book from his father, Richard Scarry, while the subject of Jean Craighead George's Lonesome George is unveiled at the Museum of Natural History.
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Iconic author and illustrator Richard Scarry's son Huck Scarry at the launch of the newly discovered and never-before-published Best Lowly Worm Ever (Random, 2014) at Forbes Gallery in New York City on September 17. Photo by Rocco Staino.

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Lonesome George, a Pinta Island tortoise (a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise native to Ecuador's Pinta Island) and the last of his kind, who died at age 102 in 2012, was unveiled at the Museum of Natural History September 18. George was also the subject of Jean Craighead George's Lonesome George (HarperCollins, 2014).

 

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