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Hidden under the Ground
The World Beneath Your Feet
By Kent, Peter
- ISBN
- 978-0-52567-552-5
- Publisher
- New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1998.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1998
Gr 3-5 This easily read and highly pictorial work on a variety of underground landscapes suffers from a flaw common to many foreign imports when it comes to animal life. Similar-looking species may have widely divergent lifestyles when an ocean intervenes. The segment on the "Animal Underworld" depicts a colony of European rabbits (Oryctolagus) living in a communal burrow, or warren, and Eurasian badgers (Meles) in a clannish tunnel system called a sett. American badgers (Taxidea) are lo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
