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

Anna Claybourne (Author) 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 (Illustrator) 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.

1: Our humble home
2: The whole of time at a glance!
3: It started with a BANG!
4: Nothing! Or was there?
5: Hello sunshine!
6: The early Earth
7: Collision course
8: Water world
9: It’s raining rocks!
10: A spark of life
11: Meet your ancestor!
12: Millions of years of microbes
13: New cells on the block
14: Land on the move
15: Party atmosphere!
16: Snowball Earth
17: Animals arrive
18: Life explosion
19: Stepping ashore
20: Green scene
21: The age of fish
22: Tetrapod takeover
23: Day of the dinosaurs
24: Phew! What a scorcher!
25: Dinosaur battle
26: Sea and sky monsters
27: Furry and feathery
28: Asteroid alert!
29: Goodbye dinosaurs
30: Glossary
31: Index