A solid choice to support earth science curriculum.  The text is clear and straightforward, easily accessible, with an attractive layout, and color photos and diagrams to suppport the text. Organized into chapters that address what soil is, how it forms, layers of soil, what it looks like, and how to take care of it, it taught me a few things. I did wish that in the chapter about how to take care of soil there had been some mention of how composting can help return nutrients into the earth. The binding is shiny and sturdy-looking, too.