Prehistory Booklist

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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
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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List of abbreviations:

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