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First, I think it's important to avoid the trap of saying we know. We don't know yet, but we're finding out. In fact, if she studies hard, she might be the person to find out!
I haven't read these, and they're for ages older than her by a few years, but you can start to get a sense of the age of the universe.
http://www.amazon.com/Georges-Secret-Universe-Stephen-Hawking/dp/1416954627/
http://www.amazon.com/George-Big-Bang-Georges-Secret/dp/1442440058/
A sense of scale of time is the best critique of religiosity. Can you walk her along a time line? Invent one in your city? One million years per foot? This is now, at our front door. When did people first start writing? Here. When were the first multicellular animals? Here. First life? Here. Planet formation. Our star forming. And 2/3rds of the universe of stars forming and dying before that. With a little real perspective, human-centric universes are absurd. Let her ask questions and plot them with little flags. Making a trip back to the big bang once in a while, some place in town you visit often, should cement how long ago that was.