Living Fossils
Survivors from Earth's Distant Past

I freely admit that any non-fiction book dealing with animals is going to have to be REALLY BAD before I give it a poor review, but Rebecca Hirsch’s Living Fossils isn’t just “not bad” - it taught me things I (a 30-year-old children’s librarian who is obsessed with animals) had never heard before. W......more

Living Fossils: Survivors from Earth's Distant Past by Rebecca E. Hirsch is a children's nonfiction book currently scheduled for release on October 6 2020. In the history of life on this planet, 99.9 percent of all species have gone extinct. But a few have survived almost unchanged. This book introd......more

I found this book in the juvenile collection of ebooks from my local library. Because of this, I expected a few fun facts in huge print and simple language. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of detail in this short book. And the "fun facts" are actually fun! There was a lot of information in......more