Planet Earth. Four elements. One incredible story. Lonely Planet Kids' The Big Earth Book takes children on a rollercoaster ride through history, geography, science and more to show how four elements - earth, fire, air and water - created the world and everything that exists today. Amazing facts, photography and illustrations bring our planet and its past to life in an exciting, engaging way. Written by Mark Brake, a science writer and broadcaster who's worked for NASA, the BBC and the National Science Museum of Thailand, and created in consultation with Dr Mike Goldsmith, a research scientist and writer with a PhD in astrophysics from Keele University in the UK. Highlights include: Earth:
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More about Lonely Planet KidsMark Brake is an author, broadcaster and communicator of science. Once an academic, based at the University of Glamorgan, UK, he is now working freelance. Mark writes popular science books, and does science communication work in film, television and radio on five continents, including work with NASA, Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, and the BBC. Nishant Cho
More about Mark BrakeBrendan Kearney is also the illustrator of Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast and its sequels The Case of the Stinky Stench and Mission Defrostable , as well as Bertie Wings It . He lives in St. Albans, UK.
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