Grandmother Fish

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

Starting a thread here for the excellent children's book, Grandmother Fish: A Child's First Book of Evolution.
You can find out more about it at the official website, http://www.grandmotherfish.com/ .

I also wrote my own review of Grandmother Fish here:
https://dinodadreviews.com/2019/01/10/grandmother-fish/
My little kids really love it! They having fun acting out the attributes of each animal.
I really like the way it makes phylogeny so accessible to children, using nice simple language that they can understand.

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

A couple more pages from the book that I particularly liked:

[ITdactyl]

Nice book... thanks for sharing.

Though for something progressive, someone has to remind cousin bird to hide 2 fingers in the wing and stop being a caricature.

(I'm just being silly of course)

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

lol, yeah, to be honest that stuck out to me too, but I was trying not to be a stickler about it. 

[HD-man]

Though for something progressive, someone has to remind cousin bird to hide 2 fingers in the wing and stop being a caricature.

Also, Grandmother Amniote is incorrectly called Grandmother Reptile: https://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G104/handouts/104Amniota.pdf

[Loon]

Also seems like pterosauria is labelled "pterodactyls".

But, I love the art; and hey, despite some inaccuracies, I'll take it over this:

[acro-man]

Also seems like pterosauria is labelled "pterodactyls".

But, I love the art; and hey, despite some inaccuracies, I'll take it over this:

This looks like a "DINOSAURS for bad-ass", lol

[Libraraptor]

Books like this are so important in times of barefaced creationism. 

[Loon]

Books like this are so important in times of barefaced creationism.

Couldn't agree more, stuff like this is also much more interesting to kids. I remember when I was young, I had a picture book about the evolution of whales, and it was the most amazing thing to me.

[Halichoeres]

Books like this are so important in times of barefaced creationism.

Agreed. A book like this would have been contraband in my house growing up.

[SBell]

Thanks for sharing. I've been aware of this book for some time, but they didn't have a distributor for some time (and then I kind of forgot about it).

I may need to try and bring this in for the bookstore I work at, now that I know where I can get it.

[Neosodon]

It's nice to see a cute and kid friendly depictions of evolution. The subject is usually depicted as being more adult which I think is a mistake. My first introduction to evolution was those really creepy reconstructions of early hominids which freaked me out when I was really little so it wasn't until years later that I learned about the subject.

Creationist books should be appreciated though. The ones I had as a kid depicted T. rex eating vegetables and Parasaurolophus breathing fire. I gave up creationism before I even learned about evolution.

[Derek.McManus]

Interesting book my children are a bit too grown up for it now though.

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

This books looks great, it sounds like an excellent idea. Good one on whoever came up with it. (Even if it does have one teeny tiny issue saying that mammals are reptiles).

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

Books like this are so important in times of barefaced creationism.

Couldn't agree more, stuff like this is also much more interesting to kids. I remember when I was young, I had a picture book about the evolution of whales, and it was the most amazing thing to me.

Ooh, what book was that? Sounds interesting.

Books like this are so important in times of barefaced creationism.

Agreed. A book like this would have been contraband in my house growing up.

Same here! I'm still a little nervous about getting grief for writing this review at all from some of my family members. >_<