I love when a wonderful subject is condensed into one book for children to read, rather than a small volume on each subject. This is what Great Scientists does perfectly; it takes the best and greatest scientists that the world has ever known and features them in one reference book that can stay handily on [...]

From Darwin to DNA, proclaims the subtitle, and so the book does go. It covers the earliest days of Darwin and his theories to the newest information available about evolution. Starting with the stories of creation from various religions then moving on to the debate and challenges of the religious claims of the earth’s beginnings, [...]