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Over and Under

This series invites readers into a world where secrets lie just beneath the surface, waiting to be uncovered. Each installment delves deeper, blurring the lines between the ordinary and the extraordinary. It's a compelling journey for those who enjoy mysteries that unfold layer by layer. The narratives explore hidden connections and the courage required to face the unknown.

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
Over and Under the Pond
Over and under the Snow

Recommended Reading Order

  • Over the snow, the world is hushed and white. But under the snow lies a secret world of squirrels and snow hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many other animals making their winter home under the snow. This beloved nonfiction picture book exploring the subnivean zone reveals the tunnels and caves formed beneath the snow but over the ground, where many kinds of animals live through the winter, safe and warm, awake and busy, but hidden beneath the snow.

    Over and under the Snow
  • In this exuberant and lyrical follow-up to the award-winning Over and Under the Snow, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt. Explore the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the course of a year! Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt exists a busy world--earthworms dig, snakes hunt, skunks burrow--populated by all the animals that make a garden their home.

    Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt