Comic Strip History of Planet Earth: Part 1 From the Big Bang to Birds

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A01=Anna Claybourne
A12=Rikus Ferreira
Age Group_Ages 9-11
Age Group_Ages 9-11
Archean Era
asteroid impact
Author_Anna Claybourne
Author_Rikus Ferreira
automatic-update
Cambrian Explosion
Category1=Kids
Category=YNNA
Cenozoic Era
Comic strip planet Earth for kids
COP=United Kingdom
Cretaceous
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dinosaur fossils
dinosaurs
Earth sciences
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eq_childrens
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eq_nobargain
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first cells
first plantsdinosaurs
George Lemaitre
Hadean Era
Ice Age
Jurassic
Language_English
Last Universal Common Ancestor
mass extinction event
Mesozoic Era
PA=Not yet available
Paleozoic Era
Pangaea supercontinent
prehistoric times
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Proterozoic Era
Proto-Earth
PS=Forthcoming
pterosaurs
softlaunch
The Big Bang
Triassic

Product details

  • ISBN 9781445190402
  • Weight: 529g
  • Dimensions: 222 x 288mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Feb 2025
  • Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 9-11
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A funny, fresh comic-strip look at the amazing (and very long!) history of planet Earth

Take a whirlwind comic strip trip through 4.5 billion fascinating years of Earth's history, discovering how Earth and the solar system formed, how the first life evolved in the oceans, LUCA, the ancestor of all living things, what became of the dinosaurs, and much, MUCH more.

Each book works as a timeline, combining information spreads with comic strip stories, and supported throughout by high-interest facts and plenty of humour. Perfect for kids aged 9 and up.

Contents:
Our humble home/The whole of time at a glance!/It started with a BANG!/Nothing! Or was there?/Hello sunshine!/The early Earth/Collision course/Water world/It's raining rocks!/A spark of life/Meet your ancestor!
Millions of years of microbes/New cells on the block/Land on the move/Party atmosphere!/Snowball Earth/Animals arrive/Life explosion/Stepping ashore/Green scene/The age of fish/Tetrapod takeover/Day of the dinosaurs/Phew! What a scorcher!/Dinosaur battle/Sea and sky monsters/Furry and feathery/Asteroid alert!/Goodbye dinosaurs/Glossary/Index

Anna Claybourne has written over 150 children's books on all kinds of subjects, from sharks, black holes and splitting the atom to how to draw, Shakespeare's life, and Greek myths and legends. She knows a lot about conservation in the rain forests of Costa Rica as she once volunteered there for three months. She likes space, sewing and music, plays the trombone and loves going camping. Rikus Ferreira is an illustrator, lecturer, comic artist and graphic designer originally from Cape Town in South Africa, but currently living and working in the United Kingdom. While working as a graphic designer he won numerous international awards, and his illustration work has appeared in publications all over the world. Apart from being internationally awarded for his illustration and design work, he has also exhibited his art both locally and abroad.