“Rockhounds will delight in finding out how rocks are born” (School Library Journal, starred review) in this charmingly funny and thoroughly informative nonfiction picture book told from the perspective of a proud four-billion-year-old rock.
Rock tells his sensational, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, geological tale to a group of eager students. From his humble beginnings beneath Earth’s crust, to a volcano blast that propelled him onto land, to the storms and earthquakes and dinosaur encounters and deep-sea adventures that finally bring him to the bottom of a student’s shoe, come discover what makes Rock rock!
Detailed informational sidebars and extensive backmatter are the cherry on top of this illuminating and accessible crash course in geology.
*Nonfiction cloaked in fiction, geology and the rock cycle are illustrated by a jovial cartoon rock with stick figure limbs as it delves into its rich four-billion-year-old story. A must-purchase for nonfiction collections as rockhounds will delight in finding out how rocks are born.
*Nonfiction cloaked in fiction, geology and the rock cycle are illustrated by a jovial cartoon rock with stick figure limbs as it delves into its rich four-billion-year-old story. A must-purchase for nonfiction collections as rockhounds will delight in finding out how rocks are born.
Rock explains with humorous yet informative visuals and snappy, personalized descriptions how it cycles through the three types of rock (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic) over time. Whether blasted from a volcano, thrown onto land by a tsunami, or kicked by dinosaurs, the seemingly boring life of a rock is anything but.
A rock . . . pipes up to retrace its own four-billion-year history. That the same rock can change repeatedly from one type to another may be the main lesson readers will absorb. . . though the note of self-affirmation toward the end (“I’m proud to say that I’m here, I’m me, and…I ROCK!”) will never go amiss.
