A lyrical, spectacular history of the ocean—from its dramatic evolutionary past to its marvelously biodiverse present.
But where most sea life lives is the bright sunlit zone, where the sun shines its rays and adds heat, in the shallow blue seas, in the oceans so wide where lights shimmers down hundreds of feet.
Every ocean is flowing with all kinds of life, every shape, every size, every scale—from the small shrimp-like plankton, too tiny to see, to the mighty, gigantic blue whale.
Volcanoes exploded from inside the Earth.
They blazed and they blasted and boomed.
And comets and asteroids crashed out of the sky, icy and rocky they zoomed.
Earth sizzled and simmered for millions of years.
It bubbled and burbled and hissed.
It raged and it rumbled, it thundered and boiled, spewing lava and steamy hot mist.
How the Sea Came to Be
(And All the Creatures In It)
Written by Jennifer Berne
Illustrated by Amanda Hall
Ages 6-10
HARDCOVER; Releases: 4/24/2023
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A lyrical, spectacular history of the ocean—from its dramatic evolutionary past to its marvelously biodiverse present.
“For millions of years these first bits of life
Became more, and then more, and then more.”
Long, long ago, when the Earth was young and new, the world was a fiery place. Volcanoes exploded from deep down below, and steamy, hot clouds rose up high. Rain poured down for thousands of years, filling the world’s very first oceans. There the teeniest stirrings of life began. Earth’s creatures grew bigger and bigger, evolving into exciting forms like jellyfish, coral, and worms. Millions of years passed. Down in the depths and up on the surface, ocean life grew and spread. Now the sea teems with all kinds of animals—squid, turtles, dolphins, barracudas, even glowing fish, all living in the waters where long, long ago, life itself came to be.
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