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Grow: Secrets of Our DNA
Part of the Our Natural World series
- Subject
- Science & Nature - Biology
- Age
- 3-5 years
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 40
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press (MA)
- Size
- 25.1 cm Ă 29.2 cm
- ISBN
- 9781536212723
Discover the wonders of DNA in a fascinating new book from the creators of the award-winning Tiny Creatures and Many.
Earth is full of life! All living things growâplants, animals, and human beings. The way they grow, whether it be fast or slow, enormous or not so big, helps them survive. But growing is also about change: when people grow, they become more complicated and able to do more things. And they donât have to think about it, because bodies come with instructions, or DNA. With simple, engaging language and expressive, child-friendly illustrations, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton provide an introduction to genetic code and how it relates to families to make us all both wonderfully unique and wholly connected to every living thing on earth.
Earth is full of life! All living things growâplants, animals, and human beings. The way they grow, whether it be fast or slow, enormous or not so big, helps them survive. But growing is also about change: when people grow, they become more complicated and able to do more things. And they donât have to think about it, because bodies come with instructions, or DNA. With simple, engaging language and expressive, child-friendly illustrations, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton provide an introduction to genetic code and how it relates to families to make us all both wonderfully unique and wholly connected to every living thing on earth.
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What reviewers said
The secrets of DNA, unpacked engagingly and accessibly.
Davies and Sutton reunite to offer another finely crafted exploration of a fundamental science concept: this time, how and why things grow. Daviesâs thoughtful prose spirals from simplicityââAll living things growââthrough accessible complexities, showing the range and diversity of growing things, from sunfish and bristlecone pines to human beings...Suttonâs intimate watercolor illustrations riot with rich details, including caterpillars wiggling on cabbages, a loose typology of human noses, and the ribbonlike helices of twining DNA.
Veteran science author Davies (Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth, rev. 11/17) introduces DNA to a young audience...Suttonâs watercolor illustrations are particularly strong when depicting growth, showing that some living things grow quickly while others grow slowly, and some become large while others grow into small flora or fauna.
In a series of framed pictures painted in watercolor, readers will trace the development of a human being from âa tiny blobâ on an ultrasound through her infancy and youth and beyond, until she is expecting a baby of her ownâŠThis inviting book should leave children ages 6-10 both awed and informed.
