num_pages: 40
description: This wonderful book introduces children to the story of life and how it all began. Using bitesize text and beautifully bright illustrations this is the perfect book for budding scientists and those eager to learn more about our amazing planet. Are you ready for an exciting and dramatic story about how life began and developed on Planet Earth? Packed full of fascinating facts and funny illustrations this is the perfect introduction to life on earth for even the youngest of readers. At first nothing lived on Earth. It was a noisy hot scary place. Choking gas exploded from volcanoes and oceans of lava bubbled around the globe...Then in the deep dark ocean something amazing happened. Find out how the first living cell was created and how the cells multiply and create jellyfish and worms and then fish with bendy necks which drag themselves out of the water into swampy forests. Discover the story of the biggest creatures that have ever walked on land  the dinosaurs. Long after that hairy creatures who have babies not eggs take over stand on two legs and spread around the world some of them living through cataclysmic events such as ice ages and volcanic eruptions. Everyone living today is related to these survivors- including you! This is the perfect first book about evolution for young readers.
language: English
title: The Story of Life: A First Book about Evolution
publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books