Walk This Underground World

by Kate Baker, Sam Brewster (Illustrator)

Overview

An around-the-world and back-in-time adventure exploring curious worlds hidden beneath our feet, from underground burrows to ancient cities and shopping malls

This stunning lift-the-flap book takes readers on a journey around the globe and deep underground. There they'll find amazing hidden worlds teeming with life — from prairie-dog towns and ant cities to opal mines and treasure-filled tombs. Each spread is bursting with details and surprises to discover in the cutaway artwork and under the flaps. With so much to see and explore, this is a perfect gift for young adventurers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536208566
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	8.44(w) x 11.13(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kate Baker is the author of Highest Mountain, Smallest Star and Walk This Wild World. She lives in London.

Sam Brewster is an illustrator, filmmaker, and photographer and the illustrator of Walk This Wild World. He lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

Despite a few liberties with scale, these subterranean sojourns will add a new level…or two…to readers' worlds. A searching look beneath the surface for young perambulators.
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

09/20/2019

K-Gr 3-In this enchanting lift-the-flap picture book, Baker and Brewster take readers into the hidden worlds of the underground. The book peels back the layers of Montréal and London, the salt mines of Poland, the Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia, the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, the grasslands of the Great Plains, and many more exciting locations all over the world. Each location has a double-page spread with the illustration spanning from edge to edge. A quatrain introduces the reader to the location. The top third of the spreads show life above ground; the bottom two-thirds is a snapshot of the life and features of the underground. Flaps open to reveal hidden details and to further explain the scenes. VERDICT Readers will be charmed by the surprises in this beautifully illustrated picture book. The flaps may fall victim to wear and tear, but the delight of the readers will be worth it. Highly recommended for elementary collections.-Lia Carruthers, Gill St. Bernard's School, Gladstone, NJ

School Library Journal

2019-08-26
Cross-section views of underground settlements and sites, from ancient tombs to the cities of humans and prairie dogs.

The creators of Walk This Wild World (2017) here literally take the low road, with stops on each continent except Antarctica. The tour begins with a panoramic look at the busy shopping level beneath the streets of Montreal and the subway beneath that, then goes on to similar views of London and Tokyo. Brewster also digs down to reveal underground warrens populated by leafcutter ants and other creatures, subterranean Berber homes in the Tunisian town of Matmata, elaborately decorated tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, a salt mine in Poland, an opal mine in Australia, and prehistoric fossils buried beneath Mongolia's Flaming Cliffs. Each graphically tidy setting is rich in details, with human figures (fairly diverse of dress and skin color) and animals engaged in exploration, housekeeping, or other tasks. Baker's identifying rhyme is the only text visible on each spread at first glance, which invites viewers to take in the overall scene at their leisure before lifting the multiple flaps to reveal illuminating descriptive and explanatory comments, along with fleshed-out versions of dino skeletons and like additional images. Despite a few liberties with scale, these subterranean sojourns will add a new level…or two…to readers' worlds.

A searching look beneath the surface for young perambulators. (Informational novelty. 8-10)

Kirkus Reviews