The First Book of the Earth

A republication of the 1958 book by Irene Sevrey with illustrations by Mildred Waltrip The First Book of the Earth is an elementary level natural history book that was written during a time when childrens books held a students interest and imagination because they were living rather than simply based on factoids and vivid pictures. It is a wonderful introduction to the subject of geology and covers the earth as a planet in the solar system and the physics of how it circles the sun thereby defining our days and years. It then moves on to describing the earths origin as scientists understand it and takes up the topics of the earths composition its structure molecular makeup rock families minerals volcanoes and earthquakes mountains and their formation and how glaciers and rivers affect the shaping of the earths surface. The book ends by briefly discussing dinosaurs and the possible aging techniques used to date the earths age in terms of epochs or periods.