And its fold-out, ‘Laperello’ style, which extends to 2.5 metres in length, is great fun to spread out on the floor and really get involved!
Mixing urban and rural settings, as well as Geology, Archaeology and Natural History, The Street Beneath My Feet offers children the opportunity to explore their world in a detailed learning experience.
The scenes in the book, by the widely-acclaimed illustrator Yuval Zommer, are continuous, so contrasting underground sections, from tunnels and pipes to burrowing creatures, layers of rock to the planet’s molten core, run seamlessly into the next. One side of the foldout shows the ground beneath the city, whilst the other side of the foldout shows the ground beneath the countryside. This double-sided foldout book takes you on a fascinating journey deep underground. The store windows are colorful and bright. People chatter and shout to each other as they go to work and do their shopping. Cars and buses roar past and honk loudly. Opening: When you’re walking along the city streets there’s always so much to see and hear. Themes/topics: Earth, cities, underground The pictures are packed with detail, but each one says adventure-look, diamonds!-as much as education.Perfect Picture Book Friday! Look down, deep down, into the depths of the underground…
"The earth science is simple but made glorious by the illustrations, homely and fantastic at once, as in a picture of a subway car, headlights streaming, above a layer of sedimentary rock and, further below, caves with spiky stalactites and stalagmites. The text is informative.including such nuggets as "earthworms are expert recyclers, eating dead plants in the soil." An unusual offering for the young geology nerd."-Kirkus Reviews - Kirkus Reviews "The painted, stenciled, and collaged illustrations are full-bleed, and the tones graduate pleasantly from light colors at the surface of the Earth to rich pinks, yellows, and oranges as readers near the Earth's core. Zommer's illustrations are a hive of subterranean activity, and Guillain's captionlike bursts enthuse about everything readers are seeing."-Publishers Weekly - Publishers Weekly "A foldout, concertina format creates a visceral sense of a journey to the center of the Earth.
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