One Beetle Too Many

Name: One Beetle Too Many
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Kathryn Lasky
ISBN: 9781470355906

Author: Kathryn Lasky

Narrator: Stafford Clark-Price

Unabridged: 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/08/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

A lively exploration into the life of Charles Darwin, One Beetle Too Many recounts both Darwin's childhood and his time on the Beagle as a naturalist. This adventurous tale explores Darwin's discoveries in geology, paleontology, and animal anatomy that led to his famous theory of evolution.

About Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky is the award winning author of many children's books as well as several adult novels including Night Gardening and the Calista Jacobs mystery series. Her best selling series The Guardians of Ga'Hoole was made into a Warner Brothers movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole directed by Zack Snyder. She is the recipient of a Newbery Honor award and twice winner of the National Jewish Book Award, as well as recognition from Amnesty International for her novel The Extra. Her work has been translated into nineteen languages worldwide. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Calista on January 16, 2019

This is a great book about the life and times of Charles Darwin from his childhood up until the time he publishes ‘the Origin of Species’. It is a very dense book for kids. There is one side with a picture and the other side has a page full of text. It’s a 20 minute read. I tried with this book with......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on June 08, 2012

Ah, the title. Ha! Yuck! The reader finds out quickly why the title for this book is as it is. This is a really superb book. It’s text heavy, although the illustrations are marvelous, and for older children, I’d say 9 (maybe 8) to 12 and up, all the way up. This is an excellent biography of Charles Da......more