Book Review

Across a dozen big double-spread pages Peter Kent has drawn sections of the underground world of life, chosen to span a wide range of what some animals and many peoples have done there, or at least imagined. ...He draws with an informal style; human figures are small, but details are savored, and some of the scenes are humorous.

Moles, badgers, and rabbits dig impressive branching tunnel apartments for such small animals. ...There are mines, caves, an underground village, a royal tomb, and a dungeon, or underground prison, too.

... Extra pages offer digging tools old and new, from wheelbarrows to tunnel-borers, celebrities of the underground, and other extensions to close up an attractive book for mid-grade readers.

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt