One Beetle Too Many by Kathryn Lasky and Matthew Trueman
Candlewick Press US, Massachusetts, 2009
Hardcover, 48 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7636-1436-2
Suggested reading age: 10+
Reviewed by: Indrani Perera
Rating: ****
This is a great book for budding naturalists and history buffs. In One Beetle Too Many x and x recount the life of Charles Darwin. From his childhood, his school years, travelling for years on the Beagle, exploring South America and experiencing earth quakes and fissured sea shells high in the Andes to his publication of the origin of the species.
I have to confess that I knew very little about the great man until I read this meticulously researched and very informative book. Clearly Kathryn Lasky loves her subject. Did you know that one one ocassion when Charles Darwin went beetle hunting and found three new beetles, he popped one into each hand and the third one went into his mouth to get is safely home?
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