"Darwin’s famous work through few words and wonderful pictures"
Highly Commended for the Klaus Flugge Prize 2020 | Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2020
Sabina Radeva combines her two passions and talents, as a molecular biologist and illustrator, to produce this infectiously engaging and accessible adaptation of Charles Darwin’s famous work for a younger audience. It is a stylishly and highly informative account, that skilfully combines a re-telling with Darwin’s own words.
The Klaus Flugge judge Mini Grey said: “It’s a work of ingenious inspiration that is able to take a complicated idea and make it visually simple, and that’s what On the Origin of Species does. Elegant illustrations help us venture deeper into the concepts and work on many levels: for example, showing the evolution of the eye, and convergent evolution. This beautifully produced book celebrates nature and the voice of Darwin.”
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The first ever picture-book retelling of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species.
'A long, long time ago, before humans even existed, the living world looked very different from how it looks today.'
For most of human history, people believed that everything in the world was created at once. But scientists started to challenge that idea and in 1859 Charles Darwin, a naturalist and biologist, wrote a famous book called On the Origin of Species that revolutionised the way that we have understood evolution ever since.
Now molecular biologist and illustrator Sabina Radeva has recreated Darwin's most famous work as a beautifully illustrated book. The stunning pictures bring the theory of evolution to life for young readers, and anyone who wants to learn about evolution. Pulling together Darwin's observations from his travels around the world and his ground-breaking explanation of how species form, develop, and change over hundreds of thousands of years, On The Origin of Species is as relevant and important now as it ever was.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed On The Origin of Species and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
On The Origin of Species features in the following genres: Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Science, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, The Natural World, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Ecological and Environmental Interest - Non Fiction, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE)
On The Origin of Species is available in Paperback, Hardback
On The Origin of Species was written by Sabina Radeva and published by Puffin an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK
On The Origin of Species has 56 pages
£8.09
