Life As We Know It

Winston has plenty to share about the diversity of life on Earth in this informative and eye-catching book, which begins with Earth’s formation billions of years ago and continues to the present day, exploring cells, the animal kingdom, ecosystems, food chains, and creatures that tolerate extreme conditions (including bacteria that thrive in volcanic pools and coffinfish that live under high pressure on the sea floor). The book’s full-color, graphically intensive design incorporates numerous photographs, sidebars, crisp digital art, and light humor, usually in the form of speech-bubble captions for the animals. Ages 7–up. (May)