Life in a Bucket of Soil (1972)

by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein

Other authors: Elsie Wrigley (Illustrator)

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Fascinating book introduces grade-school youngsters to industrious ants, tunnel-building earthworms, snails and slugs, beetles, and many other creatures inhabiting the world beneath our feet. Vivid descriptions of how they live, breed and interact; their methods of locomotion, feeding and defense; and the effect they have on the soil in which they live.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Silverstein, Alvin	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Silverstein, Virginia	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Wrigley, Elsie	Illustrator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Originally published under the joint pseudonym of "Richard Rhine"

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Fascinating book introduces grade-school youngsters to industrious ants, tunnel-building earthworms, snails and slugs, beetles, and many other creatures inhabiting the world beneath our feet. Vivid descriptions of how they live, breed and interact; their methods of locomotion, feeding and defense; and the effect they have on the soil in which they live.

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