Maria Popova beats the rush with a top-15 list including E.O. Wilson, poet/biologist Joanna Tilsley, and illustrator Annu Kilpeläinen, whose "simple yet imaginative primer on science via art explores natural selection, continental drift, what killed the dinosaurs, how birds descended from them, and all the other processes and phenomena that took us to where we are today. Die-cut delights add an element of interactive playfulness to the classic coloring-book experience."
December 5, 2014