The Street Beneath My Feet (Look Closer)

Uniquely designed book and informative! I bought two as gifts (paired with gummy worms). Kids love!

Answered lots of questions for my kids and they love how it unfolds across the floor!

We gifted this to our 4-year old for Christmas. He's been curious about fossils, bones and underground. This book is packed full of information and illustration. We've read over it in detail and in an overview. There's also something exciting about reaching the Earth's core in the spread and flipping the entire book to climb back out the other side. Both 4 and 6-year olds are sprawled out on the floor drawing what they see and simultaneously folding up the book so it looks like "dinosaur teeth" and jumping over it Evel Knievel style. I'd say it's a win on all fronts.

I bought this for a 7 year old, who loved it. I'm 72 and want to buy another for myself

Good for a wide age range. The older kids will appreciate the science. The younger kids will have their imagination sparked. We love it.

This book is awesome. The pages fold up like an accordion and pull out. My three year old loves to look at it like a map. It teaches about the layers of the earth, the elements and soil beneath the streets As well as about drains and where the water goes. Such gorgeous illustrations.

A great book for a quick dive into what we might find under our feet. We used this the first time with our earth science homeschool unit as a fun way to preview the topics we would cover for the semester and the kids like looking through it on their own.

The illustrations really make the experience magical. My 4 year old won’t listen to the ‘story’ all the way through yet, it’s a lot of great information, but she has learned a lot from what she’s been patient enough to listen to.My only real criticism is the typography. All black text, sometimes on dark colorful background, not easy to read in low light. It’s sort of an afterthought to the illustration, and that’s a shame.

So many books of this kind feed a child’s imagination and view of the worlds that extend beyond the surface. Great graphics! A picture is worth a thousand words.

Bought item for a local museum. Kids loved it.

It’s very dark and has only 5 double pages! Not worth the money. Usually Yuval Zommer books are very colourful and nice. My daughter just opened it and closed it in a second 😅 the illustrations are not as flamboyant. It’s totally dark. I wonder why yuval chose this colour palette for kids. The text is placed in dark background making it hard to read! I wouldn’t recommend it at all. All his others books art collectors treasures.

Très bel album pour découvrir en anglais ce qui se passe sous nos pieds. Nos enfants ont beaucoup apprécié cette lecture.

This is a marvellous book explaining what goes on beneath our feet in an easy to understand — and different! — way.