• Who Was Charles Darwin? (Who Was?)

Who Was Charles Darwin?
(Who Was?)

Author
Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrator
Nancy Harrison
Publication Date
May 19, 2005
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  4th − 5th
Who Was Charles Darwin? (Who Was?)
Description
As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting "useless" experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Galapagos Islands, and expanded his groundbreaking ideas that would change people's understanding of the natural world. About 100 illustrations and a clear, exciting text will make Darwin and his theory of evolution an exciting discovery for every young reader.
Publication date
May 19, 2005
Classification
Non-fiction
Page Count
-
ISBN-13
9780448437644
Lexile Measure
760
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF007090 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
JNF051050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Biology
Library of Congress categories
England
Naturalists
Darwin, Charles
Deborah Hopkinson
Deborah Hopkinson is the author of numerous award-winning children's books, including Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, winner of the International Literacy Association Award; Girl Wonder, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award; and Apples to Oregon, a Junior Library Guild Selection. She received the 2003 Washington State Book Award for Under the Quilt of Night. She lives in Oregon. Visit her online at DeborahHopkinson.com.

Terry Widener is an award-winning illustrator whose picture books include Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man by David A. Adler, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book, and America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle, also by David A. Adler, a Junior Library Guild Selection. He is also the illustrator of Peg and the Whale by Kenneth Oppel and If the Shoe Fit by Gary Soto. Mr. Widener lives with his wife and three children in McKinney, Texas.
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