How Earth Became Home: the Extraordinary Journey from a Fiery Planet to World We Know: 4

How did a blazing ball of rock become the blue, living world we call home? In How Earth Became Home, young readers travel through more than four and a half billion years of astonishing planetary history. They will discover how Earth formed from dust and rock, why its early surface was molten, how the Moon was probably created, and how the first oceans and atmosphere appeared. The journey continues deep beneath the crust, where moving tectonic plates build mountains, open oceans and trigger earthquakes and volcanoes. Readers will witness continents joining and breaking apart, climates swinging between greenhouse warmth and global ice, and asteroid impacts and immense eruptions transforming the planet. Written in clear, engaging language for readers aged 8 to 12, this scientifically accurate account explains how rocks, water, air, climate and life have continually reshaped one another. It distinguishes firmly established evidence from scientific ideas that remain under investigation, revealing not a finished world, but a restless planet that is still changing beneath our feet. Serious, vivid and filled with genuine wonder, How Earth Became Home is the fourth volume in the five-book From Stardust to Us series-an extraordinary journey from the birth of the universe to the rise of life and humanity.