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Take a colorful tour through the prehistoric animal kingdom with this hilarious collection of non-fiction comics from award-winning author Mike Barfield and illustrator Paula Bossio.
From the earliest life forms living under the ocean to the most fearsome dinosaurs and early mammals like the woolly mammoth, this book tells the story of what life was really like on early Earth. Discover what these animals looked like, where they lived, and how they survived (or didn’t) in the most extreme conditions.
Split into chapters covering the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras, the book covers animals from all over the world, with each one telling its own life story. Also featured are "Dead Cool" pages showing some of the stranger animals of each period and "Living Legends" pages looking at the true survivors who are still around today.
This is a funny, accessible guide to the astonishing animals who once roamed in a world that looked very different from the world of today.
“This comic-style nonfiction book takes readers from the Paleozoic Era through today… Each animal/creature speaks in first person in their respective comic and gets to tell the reader their story… [A] clever way to make a nonfiction book educational and entertaining…[I]ncredibly thorough!” - Youth Services Book Review
"Bright and lighthearted; a zoomed-in, encyclopedic view of the long arc of evolution." - School Library Journal
"This humorous collection of short comics introduces an impressively wide array of animals, from prehistory to recent history, including many creatures not often covered in books for kids... Energetic and playful." - BooklistPaula Bossio is a Colombian artist and illustrator. Her work has received many awards in Japan, Korea, India, Italy, Mexico, and Colombia. Paula loves to create whimsical and profound stories told through charming characters, vibrant colors, and mixed media techniques. She is the illustrator of Where in the World?, Search Through Time, and The World at Night.
ENTER THE ANIMALS
- Charnia
- Living Legends: Jellyfish
- Anomalocaris
- Trilobite
- Opabinia
- Dead Cool: Cambrian Catwalk
- Living Legends: Brittle Star
- Dead Cool: Deep Dive
- Eurypterid
- Living Legends: Silverfish
- Coelacanth
- Dunkleosteus
- Tiktaalik
- Dead Cool: Go Fish!
- Arthropleura
- Living Legends: Mayfly
- Hylonomus
- Meganeura
- Dead Cool: Fashionably Late
- Diplocaulus
- Dimetrodon
- Dead Cool: Over and Out
DINOSAUR DAYS
- Lystrosaurus
- Living Legends: Tuatara
- Coelophysis
- Dead Cool: Bouncing Back
- Leedsichthys
- Allosaurus v Stegosaurus
- Living Legends: Horseshoe Crab
- Brachiosaurus
- Diplodocus
- Archaeopteryx
- Rhamphorhynchus
- Dead Cool: Jurassic Sparks
- Plesiosaur
- Amargasaurus
- Spinosaurus
- Pteranodon
- Deinosuchus
- Mosasaurus
- Parasaurolophus
- Velociraptor
- Living Legends: A Sea Three
- Carnotaurus
- Ankylosaurus
- Tyrannosaurus v Triceratops
- Dead Cool: Audacious Cretaceous
AFTER THE ASTEROID
- Titanoboa
- Coryphodon
- Ambulocetus
- Living Legends: European Eel
- Archaeotherium
- Megalodon
- Phorusrhacos
- Living Legends: Hoatzin
- Dead Cool: The Fur Brigade
- Australopithecus
- Megatherium
- Woolly Mammoth v Neanderthal
- Dire Wolf
- Dodo
- Dead Cool: Life Lessons
- Living Legends: Human
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