The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story by Maria Popova
The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story by Maria Popova
The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story by Maria Popova
The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story by Maria Popova

The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story by Maria Popova

Illustrated by Ping Zhu

Celebrating science and the poetry of existence, a true story about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death.

Based on a real scientific event and inspired by a beloved real human in the author's life, this is a story about science and the poetry of existence; about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity concepts often too abstract for the human mind to fathom, often more accessible to the young imagination; concepts made fathomable in the concrete, finite life of one tiny, unusual creature dwelling in a pile of compost amid an English garden.

Emerging from this singular life is a lyrical universal invitation not to mistake difference for defect and to welcome, across the accordion scales of time and space, diversity as the wellspring of the universe's beauty and resilience.


Condition: Excellent Condition
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Age:  4+

Maria Popova is a reader and a writer, and writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings (brainpickings.org), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive of culturally valuable materials. She is the author of Figuring, co-editor of A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader , and the creator and host of The Universe in Verse-an annual charitable celebration of science through poetry at the interdisciplinary cultural center Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.

Ping Zhu is a freelance illustrator who has worked with clients big and small, won some awards based on the work she did for aforementioned clients, attracted new clients with shiny awards, and is hoping to maintain her livelihood in Brooklyn by repeating that cycle.

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