Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas

This book easily explained genetics to my 11 year old and 8 year old. I enjoyed it also. The illustrations were beautiful.

This book has beautiful illustrations and is a wonderful story to teach children a little bit about the science of gardening in a simple, understandable, interesting way. It is a nice jumping off point for activities to do with youngsters outside in the garden. It's short enough to hold a child's attention and has a nice story story line. I like the size of the book because it's easy to show the illustrations to the child while reading it to them. Precocious readers 5 years old could read a bit on their own I would think and OK for ages on up.

Great launching point for kiddos on this topic. I used it as part of a botany unit. The illustrations are lovely and clear. Beautifully written. Well done.

The story and visuals were just excellent. I read this book to all of my science classes and used the images to help all of my students (GenEd, SpEd, Gifted) understand genetics. The images brought the content to life and kept my students so engaged that several asked if we were going to do the experiment too!

I ordered this book for my children to compliment what they were learning in science. I have a 2nd and 4th grader and read this aloud. It was wonderful. It’s very well written, informative, and enjoyable. The illustrations are beautiful. It did a great job in showing in a simple way how traits are passed on and giving the story of Gregor Mendel.

I loved this book! Got it for homeschool, will keep forever! :)

I read this book to my high school students. They don't love the book, but they do love story time and it has just enough science that you can read it as the intro OR as a concluding activity when everyone's brains are fried over genetics.

I teach 5th grade and read this to my students when we were learning about genetics and the passing of genetic traits. They liked it and it was an easy read aloud. Good supplement to any genetics unit to give info on the Father of Genetics.

Très beau livre et belle histoire.

Great biography and easy story for young children to learn about the history of discovering genetics.

Me gusta el enfoque del libro: se aleja de lo que aprendemos en el libro de texto del colegio y en vez de enunciarnos las tres leyes de Mendel nos habla de la vida tan difícil que tuvo de niño y de cómo Mendel, una vez hecho abad, quería hacer un gran descubrimiento que pasase a la posteridad, de como llegó a plantar aquellos miles de guisantes (además de otras plantas), del método que siguió para que los resultados no admitiesen dudas ni y una vez tenemos los resutados nos cuenta las conclusiones que sacó Mendel de sus experimentos. Por último nos relata la importancia de sus descubrimientos a pesar de que sus contemporáneos no entendieron la importancia de los mismos.Para ser perfecto yo habría enunciado las leyes de Mendel al final del libro, pero entiendo que el libro quiere dar otro enfoque distinto al del libro de texto del colegio para hacer que el niño (al ser un libro ilustrado la mayoría de lectores serán niños) se interese por la historia y no sienta que está "estudiando".

Beautiful pictures and a clear thorough explanation of his work in genetics and it's importance.

Fantastic book. My kids loved it. We homeschool so was very educational.