Find out all about the remarkable history of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in this non-fiction information book. Accompanied with detailed artwork and photos, this book explains how animals have evolved over time to adapt to their surroundings, from the very early creatures on earth, to the dinosaurs and the animals we see today.

* Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.

* An information book

* Curriculum Links: Science: Ourselves

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Ruby Series .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Steve Alton lives in Sussex and works on the Millennium Seed Bank project. As well as writing in his spare time, he is a botanical illustrator and photographer. He also grows carnivorous plants. This is his first novel. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.