4,6 billion years ago, a cloud of gas, ice, and space dust began to spin at the edges of the Milky Way galaxy. That interstellar cloud became our Sun and eight planets. We live on the third planet from the sun!

In the beginning, there isn’t much life on planet Earth, but about 4 billion years ago a microscopic primordial cell appears. And pretty soon after that (3.5 billion years ago) a huge change happens: cyanobacteria appear and start producing oxygen and BAM! 1.5 billion years ago, the first multicellular organisms see the sun, and it’s on from there. Animals and plants evolve and die. And the amazing part is that evolution is still going on and will continue until the day the Earth burns up!

In this fantastic nonfiction book about evolution, Sarah Sheppard takes us through nearly 10 billion years of the Earth’s development. We get to learn about what it was like when the earth was created and how it will end in about 5 billion years with the new supercontinent Pangea Proxima. Long live the evolution!