The pictures are packed with detail, but each one says adventure-look, diamonds!-as much as education. 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, A 2018 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K-12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council) - NSTA-CBC, "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. Zommer's illustrations are a hive of subterranean activity, and Guillain's captionlike bursts enthuse about everything readers are seeing."- Publishers Weekly, "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. by Charlotte Guillain (Author), Yuval Zommer (Illustrator) 1,039 ratings Hardcover 29.95 11 Used from 33.68 12 New from 29.55 This award-winning, double-sided foldout book takes you on a fascinating journey down through the layers of the Earth, all the way to the planet’s core and out the other side. "A foldout, concertina format creates a visceral sense of a journey to the center of the Earth.
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