When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth

By Hannah Bonner
Hardcover : 48 Pages
March 1, 2004

The second book of Bonner's book chronologically, (though the first published) When Bugs Were Big takes a look at the Carboniferous and Permian periods. This span includes the movement to land by insects and tetrapods, the changing world, and the mass extinction that would give way to the Mesozoic and the age of the Dinosaurs. Once again Bonner has created a text that explains the timeperiod in a fun, illustrated way.

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When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm

By Hannah Bonner
Paperback : 48 Pages
September 8, 2009

Chronologically the first of two books by Bonner, When Fish Got Feet... explores the rise of fish in the Silurian and Devonian periods with wonderful comics, cartoons and illustrations. She takes difficult material, such as the rise and fall of the very fish classes (Sharks! Acanthodians! Placoderms! Bony Fish!) and makes it accessible to a younger audience. Even as an adult I really enjoyed this book and it gave me some wonderful ideas on future things to learn about!

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