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This picture book tells how the first specks of life grew and changed until the whole Earth was filled with extraordinary plants and creatures. Combining the storyteller's skill with the scientist's understanding and the artist's imagination, "Life Story" brings the story of evolution within the reach of younger children.
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About the Author:
Eric Maddern studied sociology and psychology at Sheffield University, then spent ten years travelling around the world. He now performs all over the country as a storyteller and folk singer, and he has built a roundhouse in the grounds of his home in Wales, where he holds storytelling events. Eric Maddern's previous titles for Frances Lincoln include Earth Story (which is also available in big book format), Curious Clownfish, Rainbow Bird, The Fire Children and Spirit of the Forest, co-written with Helen East. Leo Duff was born and brought up in Belfast. She studied at Brighton University and then went on to take an MA in illustration at the Royal College of Art. Since then she has become an internationally renowned illustrator working in a range of areas including children's books, adult non-fiction and magazines, and her work has been exhibited widely at home and abroad. Her previous books for children include Earth Story, also written by Eric Maddern.
From Publishers Weekly:
From the "tiny, tiny specks, floating about in the sunlit sea" to the "two- legged humans who learned to make camps in safe, sheltered places" this book tries to describe evolution poetically and, in some ways, succeeds. Readers will get a fairly lucid description of the process that began with uni-cellular organisms and resulted in people, and Duff provides striking visual impressions of the worlds of the remote past. In the text, there are absences of fact that can be attributed to the poetic format (the development of backbones are mentioned, but the word vertebrate never appears), but which give this work an indefinable vagueness; that quality is emphasized by the references to time's passing and the repeated use of the phrase "millions of years." In spite of the sacrifice of earthbound information, the book will surely pique interest in the mysterious process of evolution. Ages 6-up.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherBarrons Juveniles
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0732248167
- ISBN 13 9780732248161
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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