How the Borks Became - Hardcover

Emmett, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1910959197 ISBN 13: 9781910959190

Publisher: Otter-Barry Books, 2018

Synopsis

Borks live on a planet quite like our own Earth. They have shaggy yellow fur and long thin necks. But once they had short blue fur and almost no necks at all. How could this happen? Well, it didn't come about all at once ... Jonathan Emmett tells a delightful story in verse about the Borks and all the things that happened to make them gradually look quite different, while still remaining Borks. And by the end of the story, the reader will have a very good notion of how Evolution by natural selection works.

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Review:

"An amazing find! An easy to understand, hilarious and devastating book about evolution! The illustrations of the little Borklings discovering they need fur, longer necks, camouflage... I'm dying. I love it." - Goodreads

"A clever little lesson on natural selection through a story of the borks. Love love love. It's so difficult to find good children's books but one that teaches too? Rare!"- Goodreads

About the Author:

Jonathan Emmett's books have been translated into 30 languages and have won fifteen awards in Britain and the USA. He trained and worked as an architect but left the profession to become a stay-at-home dad and pursue a career as an author and paper engineer. His first book, Doohickey and the Robot, was published in 1999 and he has since written over 60 more books for children. When he's not writing or paper-engineering, Jonathan likes to design and make furniture. He lives in Nottingham, England. An author as well as an artist, Elys Dolan grew up in Sussex, went to Cambridge School of Art, and lives in Cambridge. Her own books include Weasels and Nuts in Space, and her Mr Bunny's Chocolate Factory won Best Laugh Out Loud Picture Book in the 2019 Lollies. She lives in Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Otter-Barry Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1910959197
• ISBN 13: 9781910959190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Elys Dolan