Four Steps From The Back Door.
Worms are turning last autumn's leaves into soil. Beetles are clearing up what the birds left behind. Ants are running tunnels under the patio slabs. All of it is happening a few metres from the back door on any ordinary afternoon — and most children walk straight past it, because nobody has ever stopped and pointed at it.
This book points at it. Fifty creatures, each introduced by the work it actually does — pollinator, recycler, clean-up crew, engineer — with the watercolour carrying as much of the page as the words do.
There are objects hidden through the spreads, so nobody gets through it in one pass. The usual result is that they close it and go outside to check.
