WHEN SUE FOUND SUE: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex by Toni Buzzeo. Illus. by Diana Sudyka. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2019. 32p. ISBN 978-1419731631 hc. $17.99     Gr. 1-3    JNF 560.92

Buzzeo tells a straightforward story of a shy young girl who loved to discover things.  As a child, Sue Hendrickson found lost treasures by being observant and by reading books about the observations of others.  It only makes sense that a curious child from Munster, Indiana would visit the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and delight in the treasures found there in numerous exhibits.  As an adult, Sue became an underwater explorer and hunted for sunken treasure.  Later, she joined an archaeological dig in South Dakota, and was the first to spot the fossilized bones of a tyrannosaurus rex.  After photographing and recording and numbering every bone, as archeologists and paleontologists do, the dinosaur turned out to be one of the most complete T. Rex skeletons ever found.  The skeleton, also named Sue, is displayed at the Field Museum of Natural History to this very day.  Sudyka illustrated the second half of the story with contrasting layers of South Dakota rock in the background, but the spread on pages 27-28, showing what the bones looked like as they were unearthed, is the most striking of all.
Lynette Suckow, Superiorland Preview Center, Marquette, MI