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Megalodon by Ben Garrod
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Extinct - the Story of Life on Earth Ser.
TV scientist Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction events ever, told from the point of view of evolution's superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. Whether you're 9 or 90, his unique exploration of the most destructive, yet most creative, force in nat ...Show more
Metamorphic Rocks (Earth Rocks) by Richard Spilsbury
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Earth Rocks
Heat and pressure are constantly at work below the Earth's surface, but sometimes, their amazing effects can be seen above ground. These powerful forces shape metamorphic rocks, one of the three kinds of rock that cover the surface of the Earth. Readers will learn how plate tectonics play a role in roc ...Show more
Meteorite Nature and Culture by Maria Golia
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Reaktion Books - Earth
Among the rarest things on earth, meteorites carry an air of mystery and drama while having left a pervasive, outsized mark on our planet and civilization. In Meteorite, Maria Golia tells the long history of our engagement with these sky-born space rocks. Arriving amid thunderous blasts and flame-streak ...Show more
Minerals (Earth Rocks) by Richard Spilsbury
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Earth Rocks
Learn how minerals shape our lives and how they've shaped planet Earth's past and present, as well as how they'll shape its future. The text explores the origins of minerals, where they're found, and why they're important. The content-rich text supports the science national curriculum, covering importan ...Show more
Mission to Mars by Mary Kay Carson
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Beyond Planet Earth Ser.
"An easy-to-follow and alluring narrative . . . instructive and captivating."--School Library Journal What would it be like to travel to Mars? Find out, in this incredible book, written in coordination with the world-famous American Museum of Natural History. Perhaps no planet has stirred our imaginatio ...Show more
Moon: Nature and Culture by Edgar Williams
Category: Science | Series: Earth
Since humans first gazed upward, the moon has hung in the sky virtually unchanged, entrancing generations of poets, artists and scientists. Once worshipped as a deity, often thought to cause madness, now known to manipulate our tides and much else besides, humanity's relationship with the moon has been ...Show more
Mountain Nature and Culture by Veronica Della Dora
Category: Culture | Series: Earth
Majestic and awe-inspiring, mountains demand our attention. Through the centuries, they have both repulsed and attracted. They have been appreciated and despised as sites of divine and diabolic sublimity, as the dwellings of gods and demons, hermits and revolutionaries. Mountain encounters have defined ...Show more
Music: A Fold out Graphic History by Nicholas O'Neill
Category: Children's Educational | Series: What on Earth Fold-Out Graphic History
Music: A Fold-Out Graphic History is a richly illustrated timeline of the history of music from 60,000 years ago to the present day, published in partnership with the Royal Albert Hall. Children's author Susan Hayes and award-winning composer and musician Nicholas O'Neill take you on a journey through s ...Show more
Nature Timeline Stickerbook by Christopher LLOYD CHRISTOPHER; Andy Forshaw Andy
Category: Activity Books | Series: What on Earth Stickerbook Series
Make your own timeline about the amazing story of life on Earth, using stickers! What on Earth Stickerbooks tell giant stories using stickers on a timeline. This one is all about the amazing story of life on Earth from the tiniest living thing, a bacteria, 4 billion years ago, all the way to human being ...Show more
Ocean (Life on Earth) by Heather Alexander
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Life on Earth
How do fish breathe? Why is the ocean salty? Why is a whale not a fish? Find out in this interactive book with 100 questions and answers and 70 flaps to lift. DISCOVER the difference between seas and oceans, look for fish and other ocean creatures beneath the waves, learn what shells are for, find out w ...Show more
Ocean Renegades! by Abby Howard
Category: Children's Graphic Novels | Series: Earth Before Us Ser.
When Ronnie's parents go on a business trip and leave her with Miss Lernin for the week, Ronnie is sure she's in for a big, dinosaur-size adventure. After all, her last trip with Miss Lernin involved real-life dinosaurs So, when they end up at the aquarium's jellyfish exhibit, Ronnie is confused. Surely ...Show more
Ocean Renegades! (Earth Before Us #2) - Journey Through the Paleozoic Era by Abby Howard
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Earth Before Us Ser.
An informative and funny nonfiction graphic-novel series that explores the flora and fauna of prehistoric Earth When Ronnie's parents go on a business trip and leave her with Miss Lernin--their neighbor and a retired paleontologist--for the week, Ronnie is sure she's in for dinosaur-sized adventure. Af ...Show more