Underground
Readers rate it 4.3 (3 on Hardcover)
112 pages · Released Mar 23, 1983 · Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
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A note for parents
Underground is a classic nonfiction picture book that uses Macaulay's signature detailed illustrations and clear explanations to reveal how cities function beneath street level. The content is entirely educational and age-appropriate, exploring infrastructure like subways, sewers, utilities, and building foundations with curiosity and wonder. There are no content concerns, and the book teaches systems thinking and civic engineering in an engaging, accessible way.
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Text and drawings describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground elements of a large modern city. Text and drawings describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground elements of a large modern city.
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- City and town life
- Underground construction
- Underground utility lines
- Vie urbaine
- Construction souterraine
- Réseaux souterrains
- Juvenile literature
- City and town life, juvenile literature
- Engineering, juvenile literature
- Cities and towns
- Engineering
- Public utilities
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ISBN 9780395340653 · Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books