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.
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Deborah Hopkinson is the author of more than 40 books for
young readers including picture books, short fiction, and
nonfiction. Her historical fiction picture books often illuminate
the lives of ordinary people or forgotten figures in history. She
has won the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for picture book text twice. A
frequent speaker in schools and conferences, she works to help
bring history alive and encourage young readers to practice
critical thinking and historical thinking skills.
Deborah’s award-winning works include Sweet Clara and the Freedom
Quilt, winner of the 1994 International Reading association Award;
A Band of Angels, an ALA Notable title which also won the Golden
Kite Award and was a Jane Addams award honor book; Under the Quilt
of Night, winner of the Washington State Book Award, Bluebird
Summer, a Golden Kite Award Honor Book, and Girl Wonder, winner of
the Great Lakes Book Award and a 2004 Jane Addams Award honor
book.
Her 2006 book, Sky Boys, How They Built the Empire State
Building, was an ALA Notable and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor
book, while Up Before Daybreak, Cotton and People in America, won a
Carter G. Woodson Award and an ALA Notable book. Shutting out the
Sky, Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924, was an honor book
for the NCTE Orbis Pictus award, a Jane Addams Award honor book, an
IRA Teachers’ Choice, and a James Madison Award Honor Book. Apples
to Oregon won the Golden Kite Award and Spur Storytelling Award and
was an ALA Notable book.
Sweet Land of Liberty was named an IRA Teachers Choice and a
Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2008 . Abe
Lincoln Crosses a Creek, a Junior Library Guild Selection,
published in Fall 2008, received three starred reviews and was an
ALA Notable book and was named winner of the Comstock Award.
A three-time Oregon Book Award finalist, she won in 2009,
receiving the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award in 2009 for Keep On! The
Story of Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North Pole. Also in
2009 Home on the Range, John Lomax and His Cowboy Songs, received
two starred reviews and was a Junior Library Guild Selection, as
was Stagecoach Sal, which was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book
of 2009. Other new books in 2009 included Michelle and First
Family, both illustrated by AG Ford. In 2010 Deborah published The
Humblebee Hunter, about Charles Darwin and his children, which
received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
Deborah received a bachelor’s degree in English at the
University of Massachusetts and holds a master’s degree in Asian
Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She lives near
Portland, Oregon, where she serves as Vice President for College
Advancement for the Pacific Northwest College of Art.