New children’s book on evolution

By LAURENCE PRINGLE (AUTHOR), STEVE JENKINS (ILLUSTRATOR), JERRY A. COYNE (FOREWORD) - WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE
Added: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:30:04 UTC

Review by Jerry Coyne from his website Why Evolution Is True
Laurence Pringle’s children’s book on evolution, Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution is just out. I can recommend it not because I wrote the foreword (which is very short), but because it’s well written, well illustrated by Steve Jenkins, and I vetted it for scientific accuracy as well as making suggestions to the author about useful things to include. I think the final version came out nicely.

I think the book is intended mainly for children in school grades 4-8 (ages 10-14 in the U.S.). If you have a younger child and want to teach them about evolution, I can recommend Pringle’s book, and then Dawkins’s when they’re a tad older.
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