In November 2022, PNSO Super Lift-the-Flap: Ancient Marine Animals, a brand new series by ZHAO Chuang and YANG Yang, officially published in Chinese. Taking time as the axis, this book reveals the mysteries of life evolution step by step from the Precambrian period, in which early marine life existed to the Quaternary period, that humans have been living in, spanning a period of 4.5 billion years. The book adopts a unique long-fold-out page binding, which can be fully unfolded to form two complete pictures with a length of 4.8 meters. Rich and detailed popular scientific facts with 119 special-shaped flaps combined with the exquisite and accurate scientific restorations illustrated by the scientific artist ZHAO Chuang and the vivid and exciting language of the science writer for children, YANG Yang, which are scientific and artistic.
The ocean covers approximately 71 percent of the Earth’s surface. The boundless ocean is always full of mystery, which makes people fascinated with and intimidated meanwhile. We are eager to understand the ocean and to know the lives that once swam in the sea in the long history of life evolution. This is a critical way to understand the Earth and ourselves. PNSO Super Lift-the-Flap: Ancient Marine Animals unfolds the scroll of marine lives for everyone, showing the magical evolution of marine life.
All works in this series come from the research results of “Darwin: An Art Project of Life Science” of “PNSO’s Scientific Art Projects Plan: Stories on Earth.” Mr. ZHAO Chuang, PNSO’s scientific artist, strictly follows available scientific evidence throughout his creation, by building his artistic framework based on fossils and scientific data. He restored skeletons, models, and ecological environment from fossils, to make these both scientifically rigorous and artistically creative. Based on the latest dinosaur research, Ms. YANG Yang, the science writer for children, vividly introduces 119 mysterious ancient marine animals such as Stromatoveris, Haikouichthys, Cameroceras, Aegirocassis, Megalograptus, Keichousaurus, Cretoxyrhina, and so on. All these bizarre marine animals will build a “Marine Museum on Books” that belongs only to you.
The simplified Chinese version of PNSO Super Lift-the-Flap: Ancient Marine Animals is authorized to Enjoy Reading Era and Qingdao Publishing House to publish and distribute. PNSO Super Lift-the-Flap: Dinosaurs and PNSO Super Lift-the-Flap: Ancient Animals from the same series will release soon. Please stay tuned.
