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The cover for the book Was wir über Leben auf der Erde wissen, showing an illustration of a dark, celestial sky above a churning blue sea.
A two-page spread from an illustrated book in German with soft, watercolor-style art. The left page contains several panels explaining the evolution of early cells, photosynthesis, and the release of oxygen. The right page shows a single, large image of streams of oxygen bubbles rising from a dark ocean to fill the early Earth's atmosphere.
The cover of the German book Was wir über Leben auf der Erde wissen by Ziggy Hanaor and Cristóbal Schmal. The illustration features a dark, starry sky over a blue, textured representation of the Earth's surface. The sky is decorated with drawings of a green spiral galaxy, a yellow comet, and a red, heart-shaped constellation. The title is written in white, with the word Leben in a large, brush-stroke font. The Hatje Cantz publisher logo is at the bottom.
The back cover of a book with an illustration of outer space. The top half is a starry black sky with white German text, a yellow nebula, a comet, and small planets. The bottom half shows a large, textured blue nebula. In the lower-left corner are a barcode, ISBN, and a website address.
A two-page spread from an illustrated book with colorful panels depicting the progress of human civilization. On the left, panels show people migrating across a desert, hands carving a tool, a person building with blocks, and another on a wheeled cart. The right page shows a person writing with a quill and several sailing ships at sea. The book has German text.
An illustration of a prehistoric community on a sandy shore next to water. Various early humans are engaged in activities: one pulls a raft of fish from the water with a rope, a group cooks a fish over a fire, one holds a spear, and an adult walks with a child. Cave paintings are visible on a distant mountain.
A two-page spread from an illustrated book in German about cosmology. The left page features a large, swirling watercolor illustration of a cosmic dust cloud, explaining gravity. The right page is divided into panels against a dark, starry background, showing colorful, stylized illustrations of a galaxy, a solar system with planets arranged in a circle, and a depiction of a star's core.
A hardcover book titled Leben: Was wir über auf der Erde wissen, lying on a white background. The cover features a dark, starry sky with illustrations of a green spiral galaxy, a comet, and constellations. The bottom half of the cover has a textured blue and white illustration resembling the Earth's atmosphere or ocean. The authors' names, Ziggy Hanaor and Cristóbal Schmal, are visible at the top.
An open children's book with German text and illustrations depicting the evolution of mammals. The left page shows a primitive, multi-legged furry creature, and below it, an early mammal carrying its young. The right page illustrates various primates, including monkeys and an ape, in trees.
An open book with two illustrated pages showing various prehistoric sea creatures from the Cambrian explosion. The artwork, in a hand-drawn style on a light blue background, depicts strange organisms like a pink jellyfish, a brown segmented worm, and a green caterpillar-like creature. The pages contain German text explaining the event.
Was wir über Leben auf der Erde wissen
Urknall, Weltall und wir alle
€ 24.00
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Author: Ziggy Hanaor
Illustrated by: Cristóbal Schmal
Translated by: Anna Sophia Herfert
German
September 2025, 72 Pages
Hardcover
194mm x 246mm
Age: 6+
ISBN: 978-3-7757-6067-6

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Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de


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"At the beginning - but actually, it wasn't really a beginning, because there was no time yet - the whole universe was contained in a single tiny point …" This illustrated nonfiction book tells the story of the creation of the universe and the development of life on our planet. The story begins before the Big Bang, stretches across the various stages of evolution up to the present, and takes a glimpse into the uncertain future. Based on scientific findings and yet poetic in nature, Was wir über Leben auf der Erde wissen captures the magic and unique beauty that underlies all existence. We tell our children stories of apples and snakes, gods and monsters. But the creation story that science reveals to us is much more layered and incredible than anything we could ever imagine.
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