Wild Life of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals: The Amazing Lives of Earth's Earliest Animals

Mike Barfield

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Wild Life of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals: The Amazing Lives of Earth's Earliest Animals

Wild Life of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals: The Amazing Lives of Earth's Earliest Animals

Mike Barfield

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Description

Take a colorful tour through the prehistoric animal kingdom with this hilarious collection of non-fiction comics from award-winning author Mike Barfield and illustrator Paula Bossio.From the earliest life forms living under the ocean to the most fearsome dinosaurs and early mammals like the woolly mammoth, this book tells the story of what life was really like on early Earth. Discover what these animals looked like, where they lived, and how they survived (or didn't) in the most extreme conditions.Split into chapters covering the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras, the book covers animals from all over the world, with each one telling its own life story. Also featured are "Dead Cool" pages showing some of the stranger animals of each period and "Living Legends" pages looking at the true survivors who are still around today.This is a funny, accessible guide to the astonishing animals who once roamed in a world that looked very different from the world of today.

About the Author

Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King's College London where he gained a first class honors degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning nonfiction for children built on his love of science and discovering things. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children's Book Award 2021 in the "Best Book with Facts" category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children's Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children's Science Books (twice).

Paula Bossio is a Colombian artist and illustrator. Her work has received many awards in Japan, Korea, India, Italy, Mexico, and Colombia. Paula loves to create whimsical and profound stories told through charming characters, vibrant colors, and mixed media techniques. She is the illustrator of Where in the World?, Search Through Time, and The World at Night.

Critical Reviews

"This comic-style nonfiction book takes readers from the Paleozoic Era through today... Each animal/creature speaks in first person in their respective comic and gets to tell the reader their story... [A] clever way to make a nonfiction book educational and entertaining...[I]ncredibly thorough!" - Youth Services Book Review

"Bright and lighthearted; a zoomed-in, encyclopedic view of the long arc of evolution." - School Library Journal

"This humorous collection of short comics introduces an impressively wide array of animals, from prehistory to recent history, including many creatures not often covered in books for kids... Energetic and playful." - Booklist

Publishing Information

Publisher: Buster Books Us
Pub date: 2026-06-02
Length: 96 pages

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