The ultimate biography of the ultimate subject—planet Earth! Featuring humorous interviews, bold illustrations, cutting-edge science, and four and a half billion years of history, readers ages 10 and up will get to know the place we call home and the importance of caring for our planet well into the future! 
 
Here it is—the celebrity biography we didn’t know we wanted, and now can’t get enough of—the story of Earth, our fascinating little home in the solar system with all its crazy life forms and dramatic geological ages. Travel back through the eras, eons, and ages, and discover the major extinction events (sorry, dinosaurs!) the introduction of new species (hello, humans!), and how the land shifted and changed over time to become what we know today (Pangea who?)
 
From the chaotic Hadean eon with its huge oceans of molten rock to today’s Cenozoic era, aka the Age of Mammals, get an in-depth look at how Earth has changed in the past and how it’s changing now. Learn about the Great Oxygenation Event. Meet some of the planet’s wildest life-forms, like Megatherium—a sloth as big as an elephant—and Hallucigenia—the walking, spiky worm so named because the scientists who first discovered the fossils thought they were hallucinating. Watch the continents separate, crash together, and re-form. And catch up on the basics, like why the sky is blue and how tectonic plates create mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes. 
 
It's the ultimate biography of the best home in the galaxy for kids who are history buffs, science buffs, or just plain curious to know more about the world around them!


 

 
Chapter 1: The Very Beginning—The Formation of Earth through the Hadean Eon
Chapter 2: Life Has Evolved, and It Itches—The Archean Eon
Chapter 3: A Breath of Fresh Air—The Proterozoic Eon
Chapter 4: An Explosion! But the Good Kind—The Cambrian Period
Chapter 5: The Big Chill—The Ordovician and Silurian Periods
Chapter 6: When Plants Killed Everything—The Devonian Period
Chapter 7: Good Living and the Great Dying—The Carboniferous and Permian Periods
Chapter 8: King Lizard Time—The Triassic and Jurassic Periods
Chapter 9: The Other Big Bang—The Cretaceous Periods
Chapter 10: You Are Here—The Cenozoic Era
Final Notes from Interview with Earth
How You Can Protect Earth’s Future
Ask the Earth Q&A
All the Time in the Universe
Pronunciation Guide
Further Reading/Resources TK
Index
Author and Illustrator Bios
 

"An entertaining and educational read, The Ultimate Biography of Earth is a delightful journey through the history of the universe with a focus on Earth and life. Highly recommend for curious children who are elementary and middle school aged."
— YABC

The Ultimate Biography of Earth is a treasure trove of fun facts and knowledge about our planet's history. Arranged in a clear, engaging chronological format, this book invites readers to see the Earth as a friend with a storied past—and a future worth protecting.
— Rosemary Mosco, best-selling science writer naturalist

 

By taking us back to the beginning of time, Nick Lund and Jason Ford guide us on an engaging and richly-illustrated adventure that will help kids not only understand the world around us, but our place in it. This book is so fun and contains so many engaging illustrations that most readers will not even realize how much they have learned about the world around us, and how much it has changed.
—David Steen, wildlife scientist and author