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Author: Kristan Lawson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Product: Book (160 pages)
Ages: 9 and up
Cost: $29.95 |
Darwin and Evolution for Kids is part
of an excellent series from Chicago Review Press that combines great
storytelling, science, and scientific activities. Author Kristan Lawson
uses fun anecdotes to move the story forward. (Darwin’s grandfather
was so fat, he had a semi-circle cut into his table so he could reach
his food!)
Lawson navigates readers through Darwin’s
life. As a boy, Darwin was no great scholar. (His dad thought his
son was a little, um, stupid.) But he loved collecting plants, animals,
and insects and had an intensely curious mind. His job as a naturalist
with the Beagle—a British exploratory ship—directly led
to his ground-breaking theories. Still, it took Darwin about 20 years
to write and publish On the Origin of Species. Society greeted the
book in two ways: postively and negatively. Hmm, some things never
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Reviewer:
Katie Ling
Age: 12
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This is an amazing book! Even though
I’d already heard about Darwin’s evolution from science
camp, there were still many interesting facts that I hadn’t
known before. For example, do you know what a “hopeful monster”
is? Well, I sure didn’t. I found facts like that in a chapter
called “The Idea That Changed The World”.
The book basically tells all about what
Darwin thought about evolution, his life story and, much to my surprise,
it contained many activities and skills you can acquire or do. I
really liked the fact that it was history and science, all in one
interesting book. Reading this book let me understand fully what
Darwin thought about this particular subject.
I give this book a score of 8.5 out of 10.
If you are interested in history, science or both, like doing experiments,
and you want to learn more about evolution, then this is definitely
the book for you!
(Originally published in the Mar/Apr
2004 issue of YES Mag.) |
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