With cute (but not sweetly-cute) Illustrations and groan-worthy jokes and puns, this book should appeal to its target age group and serves as a terrific intro book to geology in a fun form. It’s a book my older child would have loved as a kid (as he loved The Cartoon History of ___ books).

An interesting way of telling the history of the Earth. I had to read it for a workshop I am going to. I can see why the graphic novel format would be helpful for some readers.

Excellent NF graphic novel.

A very entertaining way to teach a lot of earth science.

A groundhog and a worm explain the history of Earth. Much easier to digest than the Neil Tyson book.

An inspiring overview of geological history suitable for all ages. One typo in an appendix dates the Big Bang at 4.5 billion years ago; clearly just a missing “1” and not a factual error, since the actual date is mentioned in the first few pages.

This nonfiction graphic novel explains the geologic history of planet Earth.

The two main characters are a knowledgeable prairie dog and an inquisitive earthworm whose questions keep the prairie dog explaining scientific concepts from the Big Bang to Climate Change.

While some scientific details and explanations get complex, each is nicely supported with various illustrations that help clarify any vocabulary that younger readers may find challenging. I especially liked the illustrations showing different ways tectonic plates may move creating oceans or mountains, or moving continents across Earth. The set of illustrations showing how dead plants may become coal was another helpful graphic showing how the dead plants keep getting compressed.

There are also a few two-page spreads featuring scientists and their contributions:
*James Hutton, father of geology
*Alfred Wegener, hypothesized theory of continental drift
*Bruce Heezen & Marie Tharp, created ocean floor map contributing to acceptance of theory of plate tectonics

The chronological narrative also incorporates important geological events like the Vesuvius eruption and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

If you know a middle school science teacher, this book would make a wonderful gift for their classroom library.

The story of the geological formation and happenings of Earth as told by a gopher. Packed with information and at times humorous. Many sources listed.