Gregor Mendel books

Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas

by: Cheryl Bardoe
This is a great basic book to explain genetics and Mendel's life. Super diagrams. Great for early science reports...
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The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics

by: Robin Marantz Henig
We don't have a great deal of contemporaneous documentation to illuminate the life and work of the Moravian Augustinian monk, Gregor Johann Mendel, the `father of modern genetics.' Apart from copies of his seminal 1865 paper, "Experiments in Plant Hybridization," and sundry recollections of individuals with whom he corresponded and socialized, what is known of Mendel can be recorded in maybe three focused and economical paragraphs.Given these facts, it may seem remarkable that Robin Henig was able to construct a book of this length.
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Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics

by: Simon Mawer, Field Museum of Chicago
Considered one of the greatest scientists in history, Gregor Mendel was the first person to map the characteristics of a living thing’s successive generations, thus forming the foundation of modern genetic science. In Gregor Mendel, distinguished novelist and biologist Simon Mawer outlines Mendel’s groundbreaking research and traces his intellectual legacy from his discoveries in the mid-19th century to the present.

In an engaging narrative enhanced by beautiful illustrations, Mawer details Mendel’s life and work, from his experimentation with garden peas through his subsequent findings about heredity and genetic traits.
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Gregor Mendel: And the Roots of Genetics

by: Edward Edelson
When Gregor Mendel passed away in 1884, not a single scholar recognized his epochal contributions to biology. The unassuming abbot of the Augustinian monastery in Brno (in today's Czech Republic) was rediscovered at the turn of the century when scientists were stunned to learn that their findings about inheritance had already been made by an unknown monk three decades earlier. A dedicated researcher who spent every spare hour in the study of the natural sciences, Mendel devised a series of brilliantly simple experiments using a plant easily grown on the monastery's grounds--the garden pea.
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