From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story
    
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Author: Jennifer Morgan Illustrator: Dana Lynne Andersen
Retail Price: Paperback • $9.95 | Hardback • $19.95 “Once upon a time” meets science in a children’s picture book that tells the thrilling story of how life began on Earth. This book, the second in Universe trilogy, picks up the story where Born With A Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story left off, with the first appearance of life on Earth. It’s a thrilling story about how Earth triumphs over crisis to become bacteria, jellyfish, flowers . . . even dinosaurs! In the third book, Mammals Who Morph: The Universe Tells Our Evolution Story, mammals rise and so do you |
Reviews
“Wonderfully well done, this book provides a much needed entry into a deeper understanding of the larger patterns of evolution. The sooner children hear these words, the better off they will be.”
— Dr. Thomas Berry, cultural historian, author of Dream of the Earth
Reader Comments
From Lava to Life, along with Born With a Bang, were two important sources for information and inspiration in my upper elementary classroom over the past two months. We hosted an Evolution Museum in which my students produced large-scale paintings of single-celled organisms that were inspired by Dana Andersen’s artwork in the book. There’s simply nothing I can find published that has the impact of these books for children as they learn.