The Greatest Show on Earth - A Review
The Greatest Show on Earth Written & illustrated by Mini Grey Published by Penguin Random House Children’s, UK, 2022 I wanted to tell the whole 4.6 billion years roller-coaster ride story of life on Earth in one book, so my readers could see ALL of this amazing and incredible story. So writes Mini Grey, winner of the Kate Greenaway medal, when introducing her first non-fiction book for children on her website and she does so with such great humour, heart and honesty. It’s a lively celebration of this unique world of ours that doesn’t shy away from the truth regarding the profound impact humans have had in such a short space of time and the likelihood of a future world without us. It’s absolutely right that the story is told by Rod, a cockroach, and his Troupe of insects in the world-famous Shoebox Theatre on a monstrous mountain of rubbish sometime in the future, when humans are no more and a slow re-wilding of the trashed planet is taking pla...