Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951- author.

Title:

Charles Darwin's On the origin of species / adapted by Rebecca Stefoff ; with illustrations by Teagan White.

Edition:

Young readers edition.

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2018]

Description:

170 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 x 29 cm

Summary:

"Charles Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species is now available in an accessible, illustrated edition for young readers that includes an introduction, glossary, modern insight and information, and more ... This [edition] makes Darwin's cornerstone of modern science accessible to readers of all ages. Meticulously curated to honor Darwin's original text, this compelling edition also provides contemporary insight, photographs, illustrations, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Target Audience Note:

010+.

Subjects:

Evolution (Biology) -- Juvenile literature.

Natural selection -- Juvenile literature.

Other Author:

White, Teagan, illustrator.

Adaptation of (work): Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species.

Other Title:

On the origin of species

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 164) and index.

Contents:

Darwin's great discovery -- Sporting plants and blue pigeons -- Drawing borders between species -- The struggle for life -- Survival of the fittest -- The horse's stripes -- Difficulties of my theory -- Instinct -- Rules and mules -- Reading the rocks -- The rise and fall of species -- The geography of life -- What living things share -- This view of life.

LCCN:

2017042047

ISBN:

9781481462495

Other Number:

1020304115

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

762471

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

j 576.82 Stefoff