The City Under the Back Steps by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (Purple House Press) naturalist This beautifully crafted blanket features

This beautifully crafted blanket features a detailed rainbow trout design

expressive eyes and a movable mouth for revealing storytelling

24" L x 10

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

She holds degrees from Covenant College and Denver Seminary and is the author of This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers

The City Under the Back Steps by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (Purple House Press) naturalist This beautifully crafted blanket featuresMeet 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