Grade-schoolers learn how ants, snails, slugs, beetles, earthworms, spiders, and other subterranean creatures live, breed, interact, move about, defend themselv

Describes the various animals that live within the soil under our feet, including earthworms, roundworms, snails, mites, beetles, and ants.

This book,a fascinating companion to The Secret Life of Plants by the same authors, tells the story of the innovative, nontraditional, often surprising things t

Describes the characteristics of soil and the types of plants and animals that survive in it. Includes instructions for activities such as making a wormery.

Recounts the author's experiences founding a faith-based community garden in rural North Carolina, and emphasizes how growing one's own food can help readers re