In Praise of Charles Darwin: Recommended Children's Books about Evolution

"I Think" Image by Mary Ann Reilly (2009)

Ashby, Ruth. 2009. Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle. Illustrated by Suzanne Duranceau. Peachtree Publishers.

Darwin, Charles. 2010. The Riverbank. Illustrated by Fabian Negrin. Creative Editions.
Gibbons, Alan. 2008. Lifelines: Charles Darwin. Illustrated by Leo Brown. NY: Kingfisher.

Hokinson, Deborah. 2005. Who Was Charles Darwin? NY: Grosset & Dunlap.

Jackson, Ellen B. 2004. The Tree of Life: The Wonders of Evolution. Illustrated by Judeanne Winter Wiley. NY: Prometheus.

Jenkins, Steve. 2002. Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution. NY: Houghton Mifflin.

Krull, Kathleen, 2010. Charles Darwin. Illustrated by Boris Kulikov. NY: Viking.
Lasky, Kathryn. 2009. One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin. Illustrated by Matthew Trueman. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.

Loxton, Daniel. 2010. Evolution: How We and All Things Came to Be. Kids Can Press.

MacDonald, Fiona. 2005. Inside the Beagle with Charles Darwin. Illustrated by Mark Bergin. Enchanted Lion Books.
Manning, Mick. 2009. What Mr Darwin Saw. Illustrated by Brita Granstrom. Frances Lincoln Children's books.

Markle, Sandra. 2009. Animals Charles Darwin Saw. Illustrated by Zina Saunders. San Francisco: Chronicle.

McGinty, Alice B. 2009. Darwin. Illustrated by Mary Azarian. NY: Houghton Mifflin.

McNulty, Faith. 1999. How Whales Walked into the Sea. Illustrated by Ted Rand. NY: Scholastic.

Morgan, Jennifer. 2006. Mammals Who Morph: Book Three The Universe Yells Our Evolution Story. Thousand  CA: Dawn.

Peters, Lisa Westberg. 2003. Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story.  Illustrated by Lauren Stringer. NY: Harcourt. 

Schanzer, Rosalyn. 2009. What Darwin Saw: The Journey that Changed the World.  Washington DC: National Geographic Children's Books.

Schertle, Alice. 2007. We. Illustrated by Kenneth Addison. NY: Lee & Low.

Silversten, Alvin, Virginia Silverstein and Laura Silverstein Nunn. 2007. Adaptation. NY: Lerner Publishing.

Sis, Peter. 2003. The Tree of Life. Charles Darwin. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Weaver, Anne. 2007. The Voyage of the Beetle. Illustrated by George Lawrence. University of New Mexico.  

Wood. A.J. and Clint Twist. 2009. Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure. Templar