The City Under the Back Steps by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (Purple House Press) naturalist 24" L x 10

24" L x 10

expressive eyes and a movable mouth for revealing storytelling

flowers and more in an accessible and fun way

Liz Lee Heinecke has loved science since she was old enough to inspect her first butterfly

Damion Searls studied philosophy at Harvard and is a prominent translator from German

The City Under the Back Steps by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (Purple House Press) naturalist 24" L x 10Meet Jill and Craig, two children who mysteriously shrink and are taken prisoner by an ant colony. Down beneath the ground they are herded, to the city under the back steps and the complex world of the ant colony. Here where the haughty Queen rules with an iron hand, each of her subjects has a vital role to perform, and Jill and Craig are put to work. But no sooner had they become involved in the daily routine of the colony when an army of red ants