Gorgeous book- I'd heard about [a:Charley Harper|74562|Charley Harper|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] through friends and fell in love with his modernist style. I rescued this book from my grandparents' house after my ngin-ngin passed (Yeh-yeh was downsizing and had no need for kid books now that his kids and grandkids were grown, otherwise this would've gone to goodwill). I also have a fascination with old science texts, and it's interesting to see what the state of cutting edge biology was then, or how prehistoric events were interpreted. Remember, this was published in 1961 and therefore predates when the Alvarezes theorized and proved that an asteroid impact killed the dinosaurs, as well as before we even went to the moon (the last section wonders about life outside of Earth whether alien or ours in spaceships)! ( )

Completely beautiful. My childhood delight. ( )