Prehistoric!
Exploring 4 billion years of life on Earth
Age 4+
History & The Past: General Interest
Become a time-traveller and go back 4 billion years to explore our amazing prehistoric planet!
See volcanoes, asteroids and the fiery beginnings of our Earth. Witness the explosion of life on our planet. Get close up to Titlaalik, the very first creature to crawl on land and Rhizodont, the monstrous scaled fish. Fly with a pterosaur, hang out with apes, ride a mammoth - and then meet the very first humans and help to make an amazing cave painting.
Creators
Mick Manning and Brita Granström have pioneered their unique approach to picture book non-fiction since 1993. Their awards include: the Smarties Silver Award, five English Association Award, five Royal Society Junior Science Book prizes and two Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award nominations. In 2020 they won the SLA/Hachette awared for Outstanding Contribution to Information Books. Their other books for Otter-Barry Books include Books! Books! Books!: Explore inside the Greatest Library on Earth and Women Who Led the Way: Great Explorers and Adventurers. They live in the Scottish borders.
Reviews
From a fiery earth to dinosaurs early humans, and homo sapiens, time-travelling kids investigate all that happened before history began to be written down. Child characters and dynamic art make this well pitched for the top of key stage 1 and key stage 2.
The Bookseller
A fast-paced time travelling adventure
Edspire
A real treat of a book, stretching back into the distant past with a truly unique perspective on prehistory that isn’t just your average dinosaur book
Read it, Daddy!
