Darwin by Alice B. McGinty, ill. by Mary Azarian. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2009. ISBN: 9780618995318

  Annotation: Darwin travels on the Beagle, observing and questioning differences in the species, wrestling with religious concepts, developing an idea he called evolution, and publishing his The Origin of the Species.

  Media: woodcuts hand-tinted with watercolour

  Rating: 5Q/5P

  Curricular connections: Biography, Natural science, History, Social studies, religion

  Grade level: Upper elementary, Middle school

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Darwin by Alice B. McGinty & Mary Azarian, ill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2009.

Charles Darwin spends five years traveling South America and the Galápagos, studying the natural environment there. He keeps his findings secret for over 20 years before publishing The Origin Of Species in 1859.

    -ISBN 978-0618995318

    -Media: Woodcuts hand-tinted with watercolors

    -Rating: 5Q/5P

    -Curricular Connections: Grades 7-9, Biography, Science/Health, History/Social Studies

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