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Richard Dawkins · 272 pages
What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Or what about the great catfish that carries the world on its back? Has anyone ever t
Dinosaurs
Robert Sabuda, Matthew Reinhart
"From the world's preeminent paper engineers, a thrilling 3-D look at dinosaurs Open this book and a massive T. REX springs out, flashing a startling jawful of jagged teeth. Turn the next spread and a ravishing raptor unfurls and appears to fly off the edge of the page. Inside the amazing ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA: DINOSAURS are "shield bearers" in full-body armor, creatures with frilly headgear,
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
Joyce Sidman · 40 pages
Poems and factual information about some of the creatures that live on Planet Earth.
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do
Steve Jenkins, Robin Page · 32 pages
The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin
Peter Sis · 40 pages
Presents the life of the famous nineteenth-century naturalist using text from Darwin's writings and detailed drawings by Sis
The Animal Book
Steve Jenkins · 208 pages
Shares facts on over three hundred animals and offers a brief overview of the history of life on Earth. Dance with a blue-footed booby, or stare down an eyelash viper. But mind your step-- in the animal world, the name of the game is survival --
After Man: A Zoology of the Future
Dougal Dixon · 124 pages
What exotic creatures does tomorrow hold? Dougal Dixon's classic work of speculative anthropology blends science and fantasy in a stunning zoology of the future.
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
Tim Flannery, Peter Schouten · 192 pages
Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin · 480 pages
"The first fully illustrated edition of Charles Darwin's account of the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, featuring excerpts from related works, letters by Darwin, and other supplementary resources."--
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
Michael J. Benton · 336 pages
Dinosaurs
Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne · 119 pages
Jack and Annie explain about all the different types of dinosaurs.
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
Richard Fortey · 302 pages
"With Fortey's expert guidance, we begin to understand how trilobites reveal the pattern and mechanism of evolution through their fossil legacy in the rocks. Through the eyes of trilobites, he allows us glimpses of former worlds as foreign in their geography as in their life forms. Altogether, he provides a unique picture of our geological past, which in turn provides us - scientist and layperson
The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top: A Book About Volcanoes
Joanna Cole, Gail Herman · 32 pages
Ms. Frizzle's class is having a hard time putting together a giant globe of the world.
The Cloud Book
Tomie dePaola · 31 pages
Introduces the ten most common types of clouds, the myths that have been inspired by their shapes, and what they can tell about coming weather changes.
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
David Christian · 653 pages
"An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more recent arrivals in flora and fauna, including human beings. Cosmology, geology, archeology, and population
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Stephen Jay Gould · 350 pages
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
Brian Switek · 320 pages
This book is about the epic quest for missing links and other myths about evolution. The author proposes that the strides made in paleontology have helped with understanding evolution, and discusses how fossils, prominent scientists, technology, and other factors have each influenced the theory's development.
Water is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle
Miranda Paul · 40 pages
"A spare, poetic picture book exploring the different phases of the water cycle in surprising and engaging ways"--
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · 560 pages
A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. It was one of the bestselling popular science books of 2005 in the United Kingdom, selling over 300,000 copies. A Short History deviates from
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
Chris Barton
The story of Joe and Bob Switzer who experimented with ultraviolet lights and fluorescent paints and invented a new kind of color called Day-Glo.
You Are Stardust
Elin Kelsey · 32 pages
Introduces readers to the extensive and surprising ways in which they are connected to the natural world around them.
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow
Bruce Degen · 32 pages