What's the point of soil? What's it ever done for us?
From hosting billions of worms to minibeasts and microbes, to being the home of fungi that could allow trees to talk, to providing enough nutrients to feed a planet . . . soil is a muddy, magical, marvellous miracle!
National Trust: Wonder World series is about the wonderful, life-giving, miraculous stuff everything on our planet needs to survive: Earth, Water, Air and The Sun.
A gentle, accessible blend of science and nature writing created to inspire awe, wonder and curiosity about the natural world in a picture book format.
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