Book
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- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
Santiago! : Santiago Ramón y Cajal -- artist, scientist, troublemaker
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Holiday House, [2022]
Physical Description
217 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Audience
Grades 4-up Holiday House.
Summary
"Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a mischief-maker extraordinaire. He wanted to grow up to be an artist, but his father said he had to be a doctor. Although he was forbidden by his parents to make art, Santiago secretly kept at it -- making homemade paints and brushes. He also loved figuring out how things worked and made slingshots for his friends and even a fully functional (and very dangerous) cannon. Sadly, the one thing he couldn't figure out was his father. After years of locking horns, Santiago's father seemed to win, and Santiago was sent to medical school. As a medical student, he discovered the wonders of how animal bodies work, and his studies eventually led him to the microscopic mysteries of the brain. Using the artistic skills he honed as a child, Santiago painted brain cells to unlock their secrets. In 1906, he won the Nobel Prize for medicine. The little artistic mischief-maker had grown up to be the father of modern neuroscience." -- Book jacket.
Notes
Chiefly illustrations.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
Contents
- The first mischief
- The magic wand
- In the wilderness
- The painter
- The king of roosters
- The calamity cannon
- Color quest
- The roses of doom
- It's cobblin' time!
- Thinking small
- A boy and his microscope
- The invisible mystery forest.