3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings

"Great illustrations. Good intro, featuring larger, alliterative text for the very young, and more detailed text for the rest of us."

4.36 avg rating — 196 ratings

"Told from the viewpoint of the (anthropomorphized) universe. Book One of a series. Begins with the Big Bang and ends with the formation of Earth."

4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings

"Volume One of A Cartoon History of the Earth. Cartoon illustrations anthroporphize and give voice to just about everything."

4.31 avg rating — 488 ratings

"Appeals to egocentric youngsters: YOU are as old as the universe itself. Told in the cumulative style of "The House That Jack Built," with additional clarifying text alongside."

4.53 avg rating — 70 ratings

"A little bit of Big Bang and a lot of evolution. This is a relatively detailed and matter-of-fact presentation, with vivid illustrations of life-forms through the ages."

3.93 avg rating — 161 ratings

"Nominally a book about all that a single pebble has been through. A geological and biological history of the Earth."

4.46 avg rating — 128 ratings

"Told from the viewpoint of the (anthropomorphized) universe. Book Two of a series. Begins with the formation of Earth and ends with dinosaurs."

4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings

"Volume Two of A Cartoon History of the Earth. Cartoon illustrations anthroporphize and give voice to just about everything. As a bonus, this takes three pages to explain how scientific discovery of and study of fossil records tell us what we know about early life, and a supplemental page more explicitly discusses evolution (which is implicitly discussed throughout) and Darwin."

4.53 avg rating — 94 ratings

4.53 avg rating — 51 ratings

4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings

"Volume Three of a Cartoon History of the Earth. "

4.22 avg rating — 405 ratings

"Traces our roots from single-celled organisms to today's homo sapiens in broad, accessible strokes."

4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings

"Volume Four of a Cartoon History of the Earth. The part where humans become humans."