The Street Beneath My Feet (Look Closer)

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This is an informative fascinating book describing-the many layers of earth and what "lies beneath our feet"!Written with children in mind, many adults will find this fascinating as well! The Street Beneath My Feet offers children the opportunity to explore their world through a detailed learning experience. And its fold-out, 'laperello’ style, which extends to 2.5 metres in length, is ideal for spreading out on the floor to pore over for hours. Links to Curriculum areas, other Literary Leaves and Planning Sequences: The Street Beneath My Feet written by Charlotte Guillain and illustrated by Yuval Zommer is an enchanting non-fiction book about what goes on underground. I was inspired to read this book by my six year old son. There has been a lot of digging work going on in our village recently. My son loves to wonder over to these massive holes and together we would peer down. He observed different coloured layers, spotted bits of broken glass and apparently he even spied a dinosaur fossil once! There followed many ‘why’ questions which I admitted not knowing the answers to. So together we embarked on some research with this wonderful book.

A foldout, concertina format creates a visceral sense of a journey to the center of the Earth.... Zommer's illustrations are a hive of subterranean activity, and Guillain's captionlike bursts enthuse about everything readers are seeing."--Publishers Weekly - Publishers Weekly

Takes readers on a journey to the centre of the earth, layer by layer, it's imaginatively conceived for budding geologists aged six and above' * New Statesman * C) There are text features all throughout this book that are crucial for the reader. The diagrams presented allow for a visual so that the students are able to picture the things that are beneath the streets and that it is happening beneath the streets. Ik weet niet zeker of het boek het lang zal uithouden in een bibliotheek, gegeven de lepollo en ook vanwege het stuk wat om het boek heen zit om alles bij elkaar te houden. Kinderen kunnen toch nog best hard zijn voor spullen (hoe vaak ik niet (half) vermoorde boeken zie in de bibliotheek). Dus ik ben blij dat ik hem nog helemaal nieuw uit de bibliotheek heb kunnen lezen voordat de destructie begon. Description Description 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. which gemstones and why? Which ones occur together/nearby? This is easy - cluster some on the left, some on the right and explain reasons. Leads to more questions. Think "Corundum" and go from there....

A) This book is about the underground like the sewer, electricity cables, living things, water pipes, etc. Under the umbrella of things beneath your feet, there are multiple parts. Throughout the book, it goes into detail a few main parts of things below the ground that effects the above ground world. A foldout, concertina format creates a visceral sense of a journey to the center of the Earth....Zommer’s illustrations are a hive of subterranean activity, and Guillain’s captionlike bursts enthuse about everything readers are seeing."— Publishers Weekly After graduating from the Royal College of Art and persuing a successful career in advertising, Yuval Zommer transitioned to his true love of illustrating with his widely acclaimed debut picture book, The Big Blue Thing On The Hill (Templar, 2015), hotly followed by One Hundred Bones (Templar, 2015) and The Big Book of Bugs (Thames & Hudson, 2016). Look, I know it's a kid's book, but what I like to see in children's non-fiction is enough accuracy and realism to lead to probing questions or to at least foster some curiosity. When it's all sort of slapped down casually (splat! Archaeology! Splat! Fossils!) without much care, then it's much less interesting - there's no rhyme or reason or deeper story or narrative there to look into. It's 'just a kid's book', and that pandering, my friends, is precisely what I hated as a kid. Charlotte Guillainlives in Oxfordshire, UK. She writes fiction and non-fiction for children, including the picture book Spaghetti with the Yeti, which was shortlisted for Oscar's First Book Prize 2014 and has featured in CBeebies Bedtime Stories.We zien fossielen, mooie stenen, wortels, metro, dieren die een holletje hebben, we zien hoe dun sommige lagen van de aarde zijn. We mogen ook dingen tellen, wat ik een leuk extraatje vond. Mixing urban and rural settings, covering subjects such as geology, archaeology, and natural history, The Street Beneath My Feet offers children the opportunity to explore their world through a detailed learning experience. And its foldout, laperello (or concertina) style, which extends to eight feet in length, is ideal for spreading out on the floor to pore over for hours.

Does the book contain anything that teachers would wish to know about before recommending in class (strong language, sensitive topics etc.)? Explore even more of the world with The Skies Above My Eyes (August 2018) and The World Around Me (October 2020), companion books from the Look Closer series. The fifth book in a nonfiction early-reader series about the science of robots starring Ada Twist, Scientist! Mixing urban and rural settings, covering subjects such as geology, archaeology and natural history, The Street Beneath My Feet offers children the opportunity to explore their world through a detailed learning experience. And its foldout, laperello (or concertina) style, which extends to 2.5 metres in length, is ideal for spreading out on the floor to pore over for hours.

Ik heb ook zeker een nieuwe illustrator ontdekt nu een van mijn bibliotheken zijn boeken blijft toevoegen. Namelijk Yuval Zommer. Ik had, tot dit jaar, nooit van hem gehoord, maar nu wil ik al zijn boeken. Hij kan echt prachtig tekenen. Hij heeft een heerlijke en leuke stijl. I especially love The Street Beneath My Feet because it does not lose sight of it's big picture goal. There is a substantial amount of information but not so much as to detract from the contextual nature of the book. We clearly see how the layers interrelate. If you so wished, it is the perfect springboard to carry out more detailed research into specific underground layers or time periods. Indeed there are many cross-curricular links possible with this book especially geography, science, history or even DT. stratify the fossils. Show the KT boundary and dinosaur bones (of that time - late-cretaceous? idk, but look into it!)

what about WWII bomb shelters? Typical highrise building foundations - how far to they typically go? Car parks? As low as the subway, or lower? 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. show arrowheads and flintwork to designate the neolithic/prehistoric, and then plague pits in Europe - that's a nice single era of time to depict

A wee bit disappointing, and I'm not sure what it is precisely. Light on content (pictures are more central than the text), and the illustrations... I just gave another of Yuval Zommer's books, The Big Book of Blooms, 5 stars, but this... it's almost as if his style was not the right one for the subject here (though simply lovely for plants and flowers and living things).