Are you like a cat? You don't look like a cat. But you and a cat have something in common: You are both alive. People and plants and animals are all alive, but is a doll alive? Or your tricycle? How can you tell? Read and find out what makes something alive, and what all living things need to stay healthy. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It's a fun way to learn...

Text about and photography of experiments, animals, plants, bones, and fossils reveal the ideas and discoveries that have changed our understanding of the natural world and how life began.

A picture book about transformations.

The Earth has come a very long way from the molten planet with oceans of magma that existed 4.5 billion years ago. Since then, the land has shifted, the climate has changed, and life has flourished. But how exactly did living things come to be? from Amazon.com

This book discusses some of the life forms that live in the ocean, such as coral polyps, phytoplankton, and the great blue whale, and explains how they survive.

Presents a history of life on Earth, from the first appearance of microscopic life forms 3.5 billions years ago, to the evolution of more complex forms, including the dinosaurs, to the present Holocene Era, which followed the last Ice Age.

"Using a wide variety of stunning photographs, author Kevin Kurtz poses thought-provoking questions to help readers determine if things are living or nonliving. For example, if most (but not all) living things can move, can any nonliving things move? As part of the Compare and Contrast series, this is a unique look at determining whether something is living or nonliving."-- Provided by publisher.

Simple text and bright pictures explain the many uses of colors and patterns in the natural world.

Relates the evolution of the family of mankind, from single cells in the sea to human beings with "big brains that wonder who we are."