This was by far my favorite book! I already bought it on Amazon before writing my review. It doesn't look at one thing but many, many different things that can be found under the ground. The table of contents includes underground, holes in the ground, animals of the underworld, dead and buried, hide-and-seek, digging for riches, Paris underground, Tokyo underground, and tecknotunnels. Who wouldn't want to read this book? The pictures include descriptions and names of almost everything on the page. The first page that shows the earth's crust and below shows us boiling magma (liquid rock), earth's mantle, two plates move apart (the sea floor cracks as the plates move: earthquake!), two plates crash together (landslide, fold mountains), sedimentary rock, oceanic crust, fossils in earths crust, one plate pushes over the top of its neighbor (the underwater earthquakes cause a tsunami), hot molten magma pushes out from the center of the Earth as lava, fissure, ash and gas cloud, lava flow and many other descriptions all on the first page. When it discusses volcano's it mentions Pompeii and connects out science to real time events in history. When it goes to holes in the ground it shows the numerous types of caves and how different things occur within each type of cave. One section shows a cave of crystals and shows how those form (could grow our own crystals as a science experiment). The book shows cave cities, and tombs, it shows the first signs of art in caves, animals underground, animals that burrow or make dens, and too many other things to list. I think this book does a great job of connecting science, to art, to history, to geography, to animals, and to current events today. I hope to use this book in my class and show my students how everything is connected.

What lies beneath us. Informative, interesting, and visually appealing. ( )