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Isabel Thomas.

Writer · United Kingdom

Isabel Thomas: prolific science writer whose narrative non-fiction, including Fox: A Circle of Life Story, turns big subjects like death and evolution into something honest and beautiful for young readers.

Isabel Thomas is a British science writer and children's author who has produced more than 280 books about science and the natural world, translated into over twenty-five languages. She is best known for a strand of quietly profound narrative non-fiction that uses real science to explore the biggest questions. In Fox: A Circle of Life Story, illustrated by Daniel Egnéus, a mother fox raises her cubs and then dies, and the book follows, with calm honesty, how her body returns to the soil to feed new life. Companion title Moth: An Evolution Story tells the story of natural selection through the peppered moth. Thomas writes with a poet's economy and a scientist's precision, making difficult subjects such as death, decay and evolution feel beautiful rather than frightening. A dependable choice for curious, thoughtful children and for classrooms exploring the living world.