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32 pp.
| Kingfisher |
April, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-7534-5577-3$$12.95
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K-3Best Book Of series.
Organized chronologically, the fourteen double-page spreads of this book give discrete synopses of subtopics ranging from the first toolmakers to life in the Iron Age. Captioned art illustrates the several paragraphs of each segment, and careful word usage represents scientific understanding accurately, but the book is slightly disjointed and needs a world map. Glos., ind.