Nadine in NY Jones's Reviews > Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist

I love the message here about following your passion and persisting even when others are telling you to give up. The artwork by Marta Álvarez Miguéns is crisp & charming, and the story is simple enough to be an easy bedtime read.

I can't give this five stars, though, for three reasons:
1. When Eugenie was a girl, her mom got her a 15 gallon tank, and she got "guppies and clownfish and coral-red snails." I don't know what a coral-red snail is (it's probably a red ramshorn, which is common in aquariums), but clownfish are saltwater fish and guppies are freshwater (or, at best, brackish) fish - you can't have them in the tank together! I'm not sure where Keating got this from. If you're going to include specific facts, make sure they are correct.
2. One one page, Eugenie was described as scuba diving alone. Maybe that really happened and I'm being unfair here, and I do not dive so I don't really know, but ... isn't diving alone very dangerous? I don't like to see dangerous pursuits described in children's books, just in case kids try to copy it.
3. No photo! I like these picture book biographies, but I always flip to the back for a photo of the person, just to make it feel more real.