The Deep Time Diaries [Paperback]

Gary Raham (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up

The fictional diaries of a family from the twenty-second century that discovers a time machine which takes them back through Earth's ancient past. Includes related activities, maps, bibliographies, and glossary.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 4-6-Raham "transcribes" diaries kept by the two youngest members of a family of time travelers, then adds explanatory essays, places to visit, maps, sources for further information, and even games and puzzles. Ragging on one another in a brotherly/sisterly way, Jon and Neesha, with their parents, take an alien time machine to nine points in the distant past, beginning with a stop near the La Brea tar pits about 20,000 years ago, and ending in the Precambrian Era 800 million years earlier. Raham does not stint on specific detail in his supplementary material, which ranges from a plethora of mouth-filling scientific names, fossil-distribution charts, and which "dig-your own" fossil sites in the U.S. charge admission to an extensive glossary dubbed "Neesha's Selected Guide to Big Words." Though the illustrations-a mix of simple drawings and watery-looking color scenes-are nothing to write home about compared to the technically accomplished, melodramatic dinosaur art widely available in other books, and some of the various typefaces are thin to the point of invisibility, young proto-paleontologists will find plenty of solid information as they enjoy the Olifees' breezy observations and misadventures.-John Peters, New York Public Library

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About the Author

Gary Raham is a teacher, graphic artist, illustrator, and writer. He has authored and illustrated two natural history books, and writes science articles for publications such as Highlights for Children. He lives with his family in Colorado.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing (October 12, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555914152
• ISBN-13: 978-1555914158
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,328,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #96 in Books > Children's Books > Literature & Fiction > Historical Fiction > Prehistory

More About the Author

I love to help connect kids to science through story. I've written 14 books, several video scripts, and award-winning articles for Highlights for Children, Cricket, Read, and other magazines, as well as some short SF stories. I use The Deep Time Diaries and Teaching Science Fact with Science Fiction, to create middle school enrichment material in English and science with the help of master teacher, Vicky Jordan. I illustrate much of my own work and also create natural history and biomedical illustrations for a variety of clients. I enjoy writing adult science columns for The North Forty News and Colorado Gardener magazine, as well as "Kid's Quarry" columns for Trilobite Tales, the official newsletter of the Western Interior Paleontological Society.