Project X Origins Graphic Texts can help children to reach higher standards in comprehension. This non-fiction text told in graphic form looks at the lives of some of the worlds most important historical figures. Join Charles Darwin as he witnesses Jane Goodall's ground-breaking discoveries about chimpanzees and finds out about Mary Anning's first fossilized Plesiosaur find, among others This book also contains notes on the inside front and back covers with advice on supporting older children with their reading, ideas for follow-up activities and higher-level comprehension questions.

 

This book is part of a book series called Project X Origins Graphic Texts .

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.

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a comic book/graphic novel. This book was published 2016 by Oxford University Press .

James Driver is an artist whose woodcuts, ceramics and sculpture have appeared in exhibitions around the UK. He currently lives in Cornwall. Greg Foot is a science presenter on TV, online, on the radio and at live events. He's recently been recognized as one of the leading science communicators in the UK and named an engagement fellow for the Wellcome Trust - a multimillion-pound charity that supports biomedical science and engagement. Len Wein co-created SWAMP THING early in a writing career that has included work on every major hero and villain at both DC Comics and Marvel Comics. As a writer, Wein is also credited with co-creating Wolverine for Marvel and Lucius Fox for DC. Wein was one of the editors on WATCHMEN, and has also been Editor-in-Chief at both Marvel Comics and Disney Comics before settling in to a successful career writing comic books and animation. British artist Dave Gibbons began his comics career in 1973, working for IPC and DC Thompson and illustrating features the popular comics magazine 2000 AD. He also worked on the comic strip adventures of Doctor Who before being invited to illustrate for DC Comics, beginning with GREEN LANTERN. In 1985, he began collaborating with Alan Moore on numerous stories leading up to their best selling graphic novel WATCHMEN. As a writer and artist, Gibbons has also worked on GREEN LANTERN CORPS and his own graphic novel THE ORIGINALS. With Frank Miller, he produced the Martha Washington series. Craig Phillips has been creating cover art and drawings for books, comics, and magazines for nearly two decades. He is most at home working on tales about myth and magic. His latest book- Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts: Ten Tales from the Deep, Dark Woods -is a 200-page graphic novel about just that! It will be in stores in May 2017. When he is not drawing and writing, he likes to swim in the lakes and walk in the forests and mountains of New Zealand. Visit him at CraigPhillips. com. au.