By Thomas Halliday (author) , Gavin Scott (illustrator)
"Travel back through time and discover strange and incredible lands with this absolutely stunning gift of a book. A star of stars."
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From rocks and fossils, to the landscapes on our planet, this book will help you understand the ecosystems on Earth. Evolution and natural selection. The rules of survival.
It's fascinating. An education. A beautifully illustrated and wonderfully curated collection of facts, and stories through the eras, period to period, through the tectonic plate movements, across millennia. Island to island. Continent to continent. From Pangaea to the worlds of today.
We thank Thomas Halliday for bringing his award-winning Otherlands to children everywhere. This is an illustrated history through Earth's lost worlds, for budding scientists, geologists and palaeontologists. It's an absolute gem. A celebration of our weird and wonderful worlds of the past. And a timely reminder of how we need to protect the lands of our own time.
Step onto volcanic plains and watch thundering herds of dinosaurs crash through thick forests.
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Dive into a sea of glass reefs, emerging from the water to see monkeys fighting for survival on an accidental raft . . .
Travel millions of years into the past, and explore worlds you might only have dreamt of, but that actually existed.
From woolly mammoths to early humans, find out how plants and trees and creatures great and small shared a world very different from our own.
And uncover the footprints they left behind . . .
Starting with the last ice age and ending when the very first animals started to swim and hunt, this illustrated journey back through time is adapted from the bestselling Otherlands by Thomas Halliday. It is written by the author, with illustrations by Gavin Scott.
Thomas Halliday is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham. His PhD won the Linnean Society 's John C. Marsden Medal for the best thesis in the biological sciences in the UK, and he won the Hugh Miller Writing Competition in 2018. He is also the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Otherlands. He was raised in Rannoch in the Scottish Highlands, and now lives in London with his family.
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Step onto volcanic plains and watch thundering herds of dinosaurs crash through thick forests. Dive into a sea of glass reefs, emerging from the water to see monkeys fighting for survival on an accidental raft . . .Travel millions of years into the past, and explore worlds you might only have dreamt of, but that actually existed.From woolly mammoths to early humans, find out how plants and trees and creatures great and small shared a world very different from our own.And uncover the footprints they left behind . . .Starting with the last ice age and ending when the very first animals started to swim and hunt, this illustrated journey back through time is adapted from the bestselling Otherlands by Thomas Halliday.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Otherlands and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Otherlands features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Star Books, Dinosaurs, History, The Natural World, Wildlife, Gift Books, Geography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage stationery and miscellaneous items, Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general, Educational material
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Otherlands was written by Thomas Halliday and published by Puffin an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK
Otherlands has 111 pages
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