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Has anybody seen a decent book on evolution for a (bright) 5 year old please?

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boogeek · 14/09/2009 17:27

Because I thought my grip of science was pretty firm but she's got me all . She says she doesn't believe in dinosaurs (me: why not? We have seen the skeletons, they lived a long time ago...DD: well it all seems very unlikely doesn't it. She's not wrong!) And now she wants to know if the monkey-things evolved from the dinosaurs, and I am wondering because I know birds did and presumably lizards did, but did mammals? And where do fish crawling out of the slime on their fins fit in? And there were mammal things about at the same time as dinosaurs - like, mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers (?), but did they share an ancestor?
Anyway. I think a book, clear explanations, preferably with things saying and we don't know how this bit happened rather than making anything up (!) and some nice bright pictures, would be very useful. Is such a thing available?

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NormaSnorks · 14/09/2009 17:37

I'm sure there's a Professort Winston one... hang on a minute...

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policywonk · 14/09/2009 17:39

lurking for a good recommendation...

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NormaSnorks · 14/09/2009 17:40

OK - these were the ones I was thinking of:

Darwin and Evolution for Kids

and
The Evolution Revolution

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LadyoftheBathtub · 14/09/2009 17:44

I have the Evolution Revolution one here. It's good and very visual and friendly, but perhaps a little old and you would have to read it with her. However it won't tell you in detail what evolved from what.

Another great book I have is Cassell's Atlas of Evolution. It's really for adults but it has all the answers on that kind of thing so you can look stuff up.

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boogeek · 14/09/2009 18:06

Excellent - knew MN would know the answer! Thank you.

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MrsMagnolia · 14/09/2009 19:51

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boogeek · 14/09/2009 20:26

We love Tony Ross, thanks!

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