What's Older Than a Giant Tortoise?

by Robert E. Wells

Book Overview

If medals were awarded to animals for living a long time, then a giant tortoise would certainly win one. Some giant tortoises have lived for more than 150 years Still, there are things on this planet much older than giant tortoises. Some of the giant sequoia trees that grow in California would be more than 3,000 years old. But the trees aren't that old compared to the Barringer Crater in Arizona--that was made about 49,000 years ago. And it's almost impossible to imagine that 65 million years ago, the T. Rex dinosaur roamed this planet--but we have the skeletons to prove it

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807588326
• ISBN13: 9780807588321
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 10.3" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

A unique and superbly presented "kid friendly" introduction

Written and illustrated by Robert E. Wells, What's Older Than A Giant Tortoise? will provide young readers ages 7 to 10 with concepts and examples to help them grasp the concept of epoch time and age in the lives of animals, plants, and planet Earth. Noting that some giant tortoises have lived for more than 150 years, Wells illustrates that a good many other things live to be far older still such as California's giant sequoia trees who grow to be 3,000 years old While Arizona's Barringer Crater was made about 49,000 years ago, and that the the dinosaur dominated the Earth more than 65 million years ago. Also available as a paperback (0807588326, $6.95) and enhanced with full color illustrations, What's Older Than A Giant Tortoise? is a unique and superbly presented "kid friendly" introduction that is enthusiastically recommended for both school and community library acquisition.