The clueless king's response is to command Earth to stop shaking. But a
little girl named Axiom tells the king to hush, then tells humans what
they must do to make the Earth feel better. When the Earth Shook
provides a mythical framing for kids to understand that it will be their
job to help save the Earth. Bravo, Axiom! Keep using that huge megaphone
until the earth no longer shakes! Axiom's list of instructions to
humans--some well-known and others new but critically important--appears
in the back of the book.