The evolution of Calpurnia-rewiew★★★☆☆

Today I review The Evolution of Calpurnia.

The book was published by Bloomsbury in 2011 and has 285 pages in all.

It is a novel, suitable for all the children and/or young people fascinated by science.

The author is Jacqueline Kelly, born in New Zealand. Raised in Canada, now he lives in Texas, including the cities of Austin and the campaign of Fentress. The Evolution of Calpurnia is his first novel, which won, among many other awards, the Newbery Honor, has dominated the charts in America and Spain, where he was called "the missing link between Mark Twain and Charles Darwin", and it is being published in fourteen countries, from Japan to Portugal.

Plot:

In the warm season lawns parched Texas, Calpurnia can not help but notice that the yellow locusts are much, much larger than the green grasshoppers. Why? They are two different species? Calpurnia has heard of the book by a certain Darwin, explaining the origin of species.

Maybe you can find that book in the public library?

Yes, but the librarian does not want to show it to him. Never mind, that book is also at home: in the study of his grandfather, the freethinker family. Accompanied by his grandfather and forbidden book, Calpurnia manages to discover the secrets of the different species of animals, water and earth. He will also discover herself.

"Ah. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. Do not need anything else in life, really."

"At one time he owned an old crow, named Edgar Allan Crow."

This book was given to me long ago by my brother's birthday.

I think I read it in three days or less, still I liked it, because it is simple yet serious. At first I was a little 'critical, because the cover looked as though they had a children's book. But then I started reading it and I was not fascinated because it would say a word exaggerated, but I would say surprise.

The book is about, in a nutshell, this girl who understands what he wants to do in his life; since it is set in the last years of the nineteenth century, that means he does not want to stay home and wash and cook and bake a dozen children, or even yes, regarding the last point, but what I really want to do is naturalist. But the society of that time does not allow her to find out what concerns Darwin and evolution, expecting that all women are in fact home to wash and bake children, considering them inferior.

I stra-liked the main character, or Calpurnia, because it travels upstream and shows others what we're made us women. Although it's still a little girl knows what she wants to do and does not care of those who say that it should stay at home, to learn how to be a good wife, mother and housewife. How many times have we heard address this message, albeit with different words? "No, you should not do that school, it would be better you went to attend this offers you more opportunities." or "You should go to church, you do not fit you to grow without a creed.". People here, people here who tell you what to do with your life.

Some say it's for your own good if they try to give you directions in this way, but it is not true. People who tell you so they just want to cut the legs of your dreams, and it is this that book speaks, the dreams.

And how, if batches, you can get to crowning.

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