Travel through time and see how a prehistoric settlement grows into a village, then a town, and finally a bustling city. Watch the landscape change as huts become houses, roads connect the countryside, and cranes tower over city streets.

Christian Broutin is a children's book creator. He was born in the cathedral of Chartres in 1933. He studied at the École des Métiers d'Arts before working in Advertising. He has made more than a hundred cinema posters and is the illustrated of numerous books, from science fiction to Guy de Maupassant. He is the the illustrator of Boats, In the Jungle, Town, Trees, and Volcanoes in the My First Discoveries series.