This book is a spellbinding journey through the Earth’s evolution. A small boy imagines life on Earth when dinosaurs ruled and the reader is taken through the evolution of the earth with forgotten creatures. We encounter comets and rocks and buried seas of lava after earth was struck by another planet that created our moon. The 20 million years of comet strikes change to a world of oceans and the hundred million years of endless winter are all beautifully illustrated. We see frozen layers and the volcanic action that allowed glaciers to retreat and how the ever changing earth evolved over billions of years. Readers learn how we know this through our geology and how hot liquid rocks from the earth’s core and continental drift have changed the face of the earth. Then we are lead to a small island Solveig where the small boy, Kun, meets a little girl who swims in a pool, heated from the centre of the earth with the northern lights in the sky above. The reader is led to the fact that the earth is connected and Solveig is part of a vast continent where Kun lives. This is an outstanding story book about our planet, from an ‘Award Winning Author’ that shows the reader through an informative story how the earth has changed and developed over millions of years. It is ideal for adults to read to KS 1 children, (aged 4-7), and for children at KS 2, (aged 7-11), to read themselves. It is a book that will allow children to learn about the Earth.
Paul Baker
The Ever Changing Earth written and illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith
Templar Books
ISBN 9781800782211
£12.99
