Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas

By: Shreeve, Elizabeth

Book Overview

"Readers can begin to understand the joyous, wondrous, frightening complexity of the creation of life. A book to be read over and over for its intriguing story, illustrations, and captions." --School Library Journal (starred review)

Clear and inviting nonfiction prose, vetted by scientists--together with lively illustrations and a time line--narrate how life on the Earth emerged "out of the blue." It began in the vast, empty sea when the Earth was young. Single-celled microbes too small to see held the promise of all life-forms to come. Those microbes survived billions of years in restless seas until they began to change, to convert sunlight into energy, to produce oxygen until one day--Gulp --one cell swallowed another and the race was on. Learn how and why creatures began to emerge from the deep--from the Cambrian Explosion to crustaceans, mollusks to fishes, giant reptiles to the rise of mammals--and how they compare to the animals we know today, in a lively and accessible outing into the prehistoric past that boils a complex subject down to its lyrical essence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 153622880X
• ISBN13: 9781536228809
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.3" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4