{"product_id":"out-of-the-blue-elizabeth-shreeve-9781536228809","title":"Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Readers can begin to understand the joyous, wondrous, frightening complexity of the creation of life. A book to be read over and over for its intriguing story, illustrations, and captions.\" --\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClear and inviting nonfiction prose, vetted by scientists--together with lively illustrations and a time line--narrate how life on the Earth emerged \"out of the blue.\" It began in the vast, empty sea when the Earth was young. Single-celled microbes too small to see held the promise of all life-forms to come. Those microbes survived billions of years in restless seas until they began to change, to convert sunlight into energy, to produce oxygen until one day--\u003ci\u003eGulp!\u003c\/i\u003e--one cell swallowed another and the race was on. Learn how and why creatures began to emerge from the deep--from the Cambrian Explosion to crustaceans, mollusks to fishes, giant reptiles to the rise of mammals--and how they compare to the animals we know today, in a lively and accessible outing into the prehistoric past that boils a complex subject down to its lyrical essence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Shreeve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 153622880X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781536228809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Candlewick Press (MA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Elizabeth Shreeve","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44566977642751,"sku":"9781536228809","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68dc65d4-19cf-457a-9b79-8e9a4777b7ad.jpg?v=1701375402","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/out-of-the-blue-elizabeth-shreeve-9781536228809","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}