" You close the book reeling with questions about your own life and your part in changing the future." -Amy Acker, actress ( Angel and Person of Interest) Smart and profound on every level.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) " An intelligent, gut-wrenching glimpse of how tiny actions, both courageous and venal, can have large consequences. Praise for The Future of Another Timeline: Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline? Tess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline-a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. And just when Tess believes she's found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too.Ģ022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. VERDICT: The visually enticing format makes this selection great for science enthusiasts to browse and share.“ A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard." -Wil Wheatonįrom Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.ġ992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. A primary feature is a removable six-foot foldout timeline with art and captions that highlight the biology of the earth, laid out in three zones: under sea, on land, and in the sky. " This utterly browsable and very engaging large-format title is chock-full of facts and stories. Densely packed overviews, equally suitable for poring over in a lap or mounting on a wall." - Kirkus Reviews A 24-hour 'Earth clock' running along the top does double duty by tracking continental drift as well as suggesting the vast scale of passing epochs. "On a continuous strip over 2 meters long, the story of life from our planet's earliest years to today's Anthropocene Era. It is perfect for 6-14 year olds, and for history lovers of any age! You can enjoy this timeline many ways: unfolding it on the floor, reading it like a book or detaching it to stick it to the wall. This timeline is essential for all curious minds in a world where loving learning matters more than ever before.
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Other features include a page of letters to the editor, a 50-question quiz, and a pocket magnifier to make it easy and fun to explore all the timeline's details. These examine the key moments in natural history in greater detail, such as the extinction of dinosaurs and the threat of climate change.
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The nearly 6-foot-long timeline allows readers to compare events across the world at any given moment in time - making this a wonderful cross-curricular, all-encompassing history tool for the whole family!Ĭreated in association with the American Museum of Natural History, the timeline also includes an easy-to-read chronicle, written in the form of 30 newspaper articles. Witness the emergence of life, the reign of dinosaurs, the migration of mammals, and finally, the story of humanity from the first two-legged hominids to a world populated by more than 7 billion people today. The timeline begins over 4 billion years ago, includes over 1,000 illustrations and captions and is divided into sections (Sea, Land, Sky and Planet Earth), with a timeline running along the bottom. Consumable.īook Synopsis The perfect cross-curricular home-learning resource for children aged 6 - 14Įxplore the story of the Natural World from the dawn of life on Earth to the present day, in this unique fold-out timeline book that brings natural history to life! Includes an easy-to-read report on more than 40 seminal moments in the style of a newspaper along with a 50-question quiz and pocket magnifier. About the Book This six-foot fold-out timeline stretches back four billion years to the first signs of life in the seas and chronicles nature from the reign of dinosaurs to the emergence of humans.