The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin * SIGNED *
Language: English
Published by Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2002
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- New
Seller: Margins13 Books, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.Margins13 Books
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STATED FIRST Edition AND FIRST Printing, with publishers full number line on copyright page. A FLAWLESS volume in same condition UNclipped dust jacket.* SIGNED* by author on verso of front free end-paper with an additional small drawing of earth within an 'eye'. Awesome detailed drawings throughout by Sis. A Double fold-out page. Fabulous illustrated wrap-around dust jacket. A Caldecott Honor Book. Unpaginated. Mylar protected jacket.
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- Title
- The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin * SIGNED *
- Author
- Sis, Peter
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus and Giroux
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374456283
- ISBN 13
- 9780374456283
- Illustrator
- Sís, Peter
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Biography/Autobiography, Children's/Young Adult, SIGNED
In this brilliant presentation of a revolutionary thinker's life, the picture book becomes an art form
As far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men . . .
Charles Darwin was, above all else, an independent thinker who continues even now to influence the way we look at the natural world. His endless curiosity and passion for detail resulted in a wealth of notebooks, diaries, correspondence, and published writings that Peter Sís transforms into a visual treasure trove. A multilayered journey through Darwin's world, The Tree of Life begins with his childhood and traces the arc of his life through university and career, following him around the globe on the voyage of the Beagle, and home to a quiet but momentous life devoted to science and family. Sís uses his own singular vision to create a gloriously detailed panorama of a genius's trajectory through investigating and understanding the mysteries of nature. In pictures executed in fine pen and ink and lush watercolors – cameo portraits, illustrated pages of diary, cutaway views of the Beagle, as well as charts, maps, and a gatefold spread – Peter Sís has shaped a wondrous introduction to Charles Darwin. This title has Common Core connections.
The Tree of Life is a 2003 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year and Notable Children's Book of the Year, and a 2004 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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About the Author
Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. Peter is a seven-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, a two-time Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honoree, and has won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal twice. Peter's books, Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Tibet through the Red Box, and The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain were all named Caldecott Honor books by the American Library Association. The Wall was also awarded the Robert F. Sibert Medal.
In addition, Peter Sís is the first children’s book illustrator to win the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. He was chosen to deliver the 2012 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture for the Association for Library Service to Children. Peter won the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award. This award is considered the most prestigious in international children's literature, given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People.
Peter Sís lives in the New York City area with his wife and children.
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