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Book recommendations pertaining to Prehistory (4,500,000,000-6000 BCE).
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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Life Story | Burton, Virginia Lee | 1962 | LE | Prehistory | 4,500,000,000 BCE | Earth | Various | Evolution | NF | PB |
Continental Drift: The Evolution of Our World from the Origins of Life to the Far Future | Ince, Martin | 2018 | MG UMG | Prehistory | 4,500,000,000 BCE | Earth | Various | Evolution | NF | PB |
Fossils From Lost Worlds | Laverdunt, Damien | 2021 | MG | Prehistory | 4,500,000,000 BCE | Earth | Various | Evolution | NF | PB |
Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story | Westberg Peters, Lisa | 2003 | LE | Prehistory | 4,500,000,000 BCE | Earth | Various | Evolution | NF | PB |
Annabelle & Aiden: The Story of Life | Becker, J.R. | 2016 | LE | Prehistory | 4,500,000,000 BCE | Earth | Various | Evolution | NF | PB |
When the Whales Walked | Dixon, Dougal | 2019 | LE MG | Prehistory | 400,000,000-50,0000 BCE | World | Various | Evolution | NF | PB |
Grandmother Fish | Twet, Jonathan | 2016 | LE | Prehistory | 400,000,000-50,0000 BCE | World | Various | Evolution | NF | PB |
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World | Brusatte, Steve | 2018 | YA A | Prehistory | 252,000,000-66,000,000 BCE | World | Various | Dinosaurs | NF | B |
The Age of Dinosaurs | Brusatte, Steve | 2021 | MG UMG | Prehistory | 252,000,000-66,000,000 BCE | World | Various | Dinosaurs | NF | CB |
Could You Survive the Jurassic Period?: An Interactive Prehistoric Adventure | Doeden, Matt | 2020 | MG | Prehistory | 201,000,000-145,000,000 BCE | World | Various | Jurassic Period Dinosaurs | NF | CB |
Could You Survive the Cretaceous Period?: An Interactive Prehistoric Adventure | Braun, Eric Mark | 2020 | MG | Prehistory | 145,000,000-65,000,000 BCE | World | Various | Cretaceous Period Dinosaurs | NF | CB |
Raptor Red | Bakker, Robert T. | 1996 | YA A | Prehistory | 120,000,000 BCE | North America | United States | Utahraptor Cretaceous Period Dinosaurs | F | N |
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Harari, Yuval Noah | 2015 | YA A | Prehistory | 70,000,000 BCE-2000 CE | World | Various | Evolution | NF S | N |
The Story of Salt | Kurlansky, Mark | 2014 | MG UMG | Prehistory | 70,000,000 BCE-2000 CE | World | Various | Human History History of Food | NF S | PB |
Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) | Harari, Yuval Noah | 2020 | YA A | Prehistory | 70,000,000 BCE-2000 CE | World | Various | Evolution | NF S | GN |
A History of the World in Six Glasses | Standage, Tom | 2006 | YA A | Prehistory | 70,000,000 BCE-2000 CE | World | Various | Human History History of Food | NF S | B |
Salt: A World History | Kurlansky, Mark | 2003 | YA A | Prehistory | 70,000,000 BCE-2000 CE | World | Various | Human History History of Food | NF S | B |
When We Became Humans | Bright, Michael | 2019 | LE MG | Prehistory | 5,000,000-250,000 BCE | Africa | Various | Early Man Evolution | NF | PB |
Could You Survive the Ice Age?: An Interactive Prehistoric Adventure | Hoena, Blake | 2020 | MG | Prehistory | 2,600,000-9,500 BCE | World | Various | Ice Age | NF | CB |
The Kin | Dickinson, Peter | 1998 | MG YA | Prehistory | 200,000 BCE | Africa | Various | Stone Age Ancient Africa | F | N |
Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People | Yellowhorn, Eldon Lowinger, Kathy | 2017 | UMG YA | Prehistory | 100,000 BCE-1491 CE | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans | NF OV | CB |
Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories | Bird, Michael | 2016 | MG | Prehistory | 40,000 BCE - 2014 CE | Various | Various | Art History | NF | CB |
The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols | Von Petzinger, Genevieve | 2016 | A | Prehistory | 30,000 BCE | Europe | various | Stone Age Cave Art | NF | B |
The First Drawing | Gerstein, Mordicai | 2013 | LE | Prehistory | 30,000 BCE | Europe | France | Stone Age Cave Art | NF | PB |
Ancestory: The Mystery and Majesty of Ancient Cave Art | Salyer, Hannah | 2023 | LE | Prehistory | 30,000 BCE | various | various | Stone Age Cave Art | NF | PB |
Boy of the Painted Cave | Denzel, Justin | 1988 | MG | Prehistory | 20,000 BCE | Europe | France | Stone Age | F | CB |
The Clan of the Cave Bear | Auel, Jean M. | 1980 | YA A | Prehistory | 18,000 BCE | Southern Europe | Various | Ice Age | F | N |
Discovery in the Cave | Dubowski, Mark | 2010 | LE | Prehistory | 17,000-15,000 BCE | Europe | France | Stone Age | NF | ER |
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Mammoth Hunter | Antram, David | 2004 | LE MG | Prehistory | 13,000 BCE | Beringia | Various | Ice Age | NF | PB |
From Wolf to Woof | Talbott, Hudson | 2016 | LE | Prehistory | 12,000 BCE | Europe | Various | Ice Age Dogs | F | PB |
The First Dog | Brett, Jan | 1988 | LE | Prehistory | 12,000 BCE | Europe | Various | Ice Age Dogs | F | PB |
Children of the Dawnland | O'Neal Gear, Kathleen | 2009 | MG | Prehistory | 11,000 BCE | North America | United States Canada | Ice Age | F | CB |
Could You Survive the New Stone Age?: An Interactive Prehistoric Adventure | Troupe, Thomas Kingsley | 2020 | MG | Prehistory | 10,000-4,500 BCE | World | Various | Stone Age | NF | CB |
Clan | Brouwer, Sigmund | 2021 | MG UMG | Prehistory | 8,000 BCE | Europe | none | Ice Age | F | CB |
Maroo of the Winter Caves | Turnbull, Ann | 1984 | MG | Prehistory | 8,000 BCE | Europe | France | Ice Age | F | CB |
The Wolf's Boy | Beckhorn, Susan Williams | 2017 | MG UMG | Prehistory | 8,000 BCE | Europe | France | Ice Age | F | CB |
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Reading Age | Genre | Format |
LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8-12 yrs.) UMG = upper-middle grade (11-14 yrs.) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult (18+) |
NF - non fiction F = fiction Bio = biography HF = historical fantasy AH = alternate history OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book |
PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book B = book (NF) N = novel M = memoir |