The Island of Strange Birds

Level 12The Wardrobe of Time series 23 pages

The Island of Strange Birds — children's book cover

Ada travels by her time-traveling wardrobe to the Galapagos in 1835 and meets young Charles Darwin. She helps compare finches with different beaks from different islands. After almost mixing two specimen boxes, Ada re-sorts them by beak shape. She learns Darwin’s growing idea of evolution by natural selection and records it clearly.

This is a Level 12 book: rich 22-page stories for confident readers. Read it with karaoke-style narration — every word lights up as it is read — then listen to it as an audiobook, record your own reading, and finish with a fun quiz.

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