![]() ![]() "Animals have lived on earth for hundreds of millions of years. The text describing each animal in minimal, often only reinforcing the image that is being shown. ![]() This also helps to impress upon the reader the size of these creatures. In some cases, this includes only a head or a claw. To keep the illustrations interesting, Jenkins usually only shows a portion of the ancient beasties. Cause I'm an awesome daughter like that.) I usually take pictures of them on my phone and send the images to my parents. I find the occasional dead one in the halls where my office is. (Although, the cockroach could still go smaller and I wouldn't complain. When sharing this with early grade school kids, I think it'd be VERY important to remind students that these beasties no longer exist at the size pictured, that we should all be grateful that the millipede and cockroaches evolved to be much smaller. These beasties have a lot of potential to be terrifying. I liked that Jenkins organizes the various creatures according to the number of hundred million years ago that they thrived. Show More this picturebook, Jenkins uses his paper collages to show the actual size of a number of prehistoric creatures including a velociraptor, sea scorpion, diplocaulus, dragonfly, cockroach, millipede, giganotosaurus, etc. ![]()
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