Related Books and Stories

Picture Books

• Jack's Garden (1997) by Henry Cole, William Morrow & Co. Inc., New York.
  Cumulative text and illustrations depict what happens in Jack's Garden after he plants his seeds.
• It rained on the desert today (1994) by Ken & Debby Buchanan Libby Tracy (Ill.), Northland Publ.

Short Stories

• The Gravel Page in: Irons in the Fire by John McPhee, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1997.
  A dramatic retelling of the Coors kidnap case, wherein soil forensic evidence developed by the FBI breaks the case.

Books

• Longitude - The story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time by Dava Sobel, Penguin, 1995.
• Reaching for the Sun - how plants work by John King, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997.
• Dirt - The estatic skin of the earth by William Bryant Logan, Riverhead Books, 1995/96.
• Out of the Earth - Civilization and the life of the soil by Daniel Hillel, Univ. of California Press, 1992.

Magazines

Links

• Once Upon a Sandy Loam ... - online stories from Soil Investigation
• The Volume Room - A resource guide for students and teachers
• Desert Soil from formation to layers to surfaces