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Describes, using evidence found in fossil layers, how one-cell organisms evolved into complex plants and animals.
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Describes, using evidence found in fossil layers, how one-cell organisms evolved into complex plants and animals.
评论 (8)
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
K-Gr 3 Four billion years is not a concept that the human mind can easily grasp. Yet this is the very time span that encompasses the development of life on earth. Cole has once again succeeded in taking a complex subject and making it comprehensible to beginning readers. She begins with a brief explanation of how fossil discoveries in the 18th and 19th Centuries led to the realization that our planet was much older than had been previously imagined. Through a careful progression, aided immensely by Aliki's colorful illustrations, Cole unfolds the amazing story of the development of life from the simple to the more complex. The carefully-worded text makes it clear that science has many gaps to fill in its understanding of this progression. This is a book that should spark further interest in evolution and related subjects. David N. Pauli, Northern Waters Library Service, Ashland, Wis. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
In another superior entry in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out science series, two well-respected creators of children's books are paired in a comprehensible and interesting introduction to a difficult theory. Cole's exposition begins with a farmer finding a rock that looks like a bone and a child finding a seashell-shaped stone. ``Are they accidents? . . . Could these rocks be the remains of real plants and animals?'' With evidence found in rock layers or strata, she describes how one-celled organisms evolved into more complex plants, animals and human beings. Aliki's colorful pencil drawings and charts make the clear narrative even more accessible to youngsters. Ages 5-9. (October) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
In a moderately successful introduction to evolution, Cole discusses fossils: what they are, how they were formed, and how they give evidence of changes in plants and animals. Some problems result from the author's matter-of-fact tone and the extreme simplification of complex processes. There is no indication, for instance, that evolution is a continuing process or that puzzles remain. Flat statements assert that ""scientists can tell"" that fossils are the remains of plants and animals; which rocks are oldest; and that ""There was once a creature that was the direct ancestor of both apes and human beings."" The full-color illustrations show cheerful children and scientists examining rocks and fossils, the amphibian evolving, rock strata with imbedded fossils, a geologic timetable, and several panoramas with many life forms. The latter may confuse the young viewer, since early life forms, dinosaurs, and man all appear in the same illustration with no explanation. Lauber's Dinosaurs Walked Here provides textual clarity and outstanding photographs and is a better choice. No index. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 2-3, younger for reading aloud. Evolution is a complex subject and while this book, for the most part, does an excellent job of explanation, it does encounter a few pitfalls. Cole begins with the discovery of fossils and tells how scientists learned that simple animals and plants were the forerunners of more complex varieties. After a brief introduction to Darwin, the author shows through example how amphibians developed from the older, simpler, lobe-fin fish, but the charts depicting how birds evolved from reptiles and how all mammals descended from shrewlike creatures are unclear and need further detailing. Moreover, her progression of humans looks linear when many scientists today believe that Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people may have co-existed and even mated. Cole's brief text is attractively illustrated in soft colors by Aliki, who takes special care to make the children in the book of all nationalities. Youngsters needing a beginning book on evolution will find this interesting, but adults should be prepared for the questions it provokes; some of those answers can be found in Cole's book for older children, The Human Body (Booklist 84:61 S 1 87). IC. 575 Evolution / Fossils [CIP] 87-638
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
K-Gr 3 Four billion years is not a concept that the human mind can easily grasp. Yet this is the very time span that encompasses the development of life on earth. Cole has once again succeeded in taking a complex subject and making it comprehensible to beginning readers. She begins with a brief explanation of how fossil discoveries in the 18th and 19th Centuries led to the realization that our planet was much older than had been previously imagined. Through a careful progression, aided immensely by Aliki's colorful illustrations, Cole unfolds the amazing story of the development of life from the simple to the more complex. The carefully-worded text makes it clear that science has many gaps to fill in its understanding of this progression. This is a book that should spark further interest in evolution and related subjects. David N. Pauli, Northern Waters Library Service, Ashland, Wis. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
In another superior entry in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out science series, two well-respected creators of children's books are paired in a comprehensible and interesting introduction to a difficult theory. Cole's exposition begins with a farmer finding a rock that looks like a bone and a child finding a seashell-shaped stone. ``Are they accidents? . . . Could these rocks be the remains of real plants and animals?'' With evidence found in rock layers or strata, she describes how one-celled organisms evolved into more complex plants, animals and human beings. Aliki's colorful pencil drawings and charts make the clear narrative even more accessible to youngsters. Ages 5-9. (October) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
In a moderately successful introduction to evolution, Cole discusses fossils: what they are, how they were formed, and how they give evidence of changes in plants and animals. Some problems result from the author's matter-of-fact tone and the extreme simplification of complex processes. There is no indication, for instance, that evolution is a continuing process or that puzzles remain. Flat statements assert that ""scientists can tell"" that fossils are the remains of plants and animals; which rocks are oldest; and that ""There was once a creature that was the direct ancestor of both apes and human beings."" The full-color illustrations show cheerful children and scientists examining rocks and fossils, the amphibian evolving, rock strata with imbedded fossils, a geologic timetable, and several panoramas with many life forms. The latter may confuse the young viewer, since early life forms, dinosaurs, and man all appear in the same illustration with no explanation. Lauber's Dinosaurs Walked Here provides textual clarity and outstanding photographs and is a better choice. No index. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 2-3, younger for reading aloud. Evolution is a complex subject and while this book, for the most part, does an excellent job of explanation, it does encounter a few pitfalls. Cole begins with the discovery of fossils and tells how scientists learned that simple animals and plants were the forerunners of more complex varieties. After a brief introduction to Darwin, the author shows through example how amphibians developed from the older, simpler, lobe-fin fish, but the charts depicting how birds evolved from reptiles and how all mammals descended from shrewlike creatures are unclear and need further detailing. Moreover, her progression of humans looks linear when many scientists today believe that Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people may have co-existed and even mated. Cole's brief text is attractively illustrated in soft colors by Aliki, who takes special care to make the children in the book of all nationalities. Youngsters needing a beginning book on evolution will find this interesting, but adults should be prepared for the questions it provokes; some of those answers can be found in Cole's book for older children, The Human Body (Booklist 84:61 S 1 87). IC. 575 Evolution / Fossils [CIP] 87-638