If You Find a Rock
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (754 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0152393390 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A fun book for children or adults that love to explore nature. If you collect rocks at the beach or on vacation, you will enjoy this book. I bought this book as a hook to get my students interested in rocks before we started our unit on the rock cycle, and they really loved the book. This isn't really an informational book, it is about giving each rock you encounter a special name such as resting, wishing, skippin. Rock collecting 6 year old Amazon Customer My 6 old rock collecting daughter and I read this book the day we got and she liked it but I can't say I think it will be a favorite.. Amazon Customer said Five Stars. Absolutely a child's joy, a memory maker.
•Features 18 hand-tinted photographic illustrations •Junior Library Guild Selection. With joyful text and luminous photographs, If You Find a Rock celebrates rocks everywhere--as well as the mysterious and wonderful places they are found. Think of all the rocks there are: the skipping rocks, the splashing rocks, and the chalk rocks. Whether the found treasures are climbing rocks or wishing rocks, children can't help collecting them
No feldspar or quartz is categorized hereDrather, Christian (The Bookstore Mouse) muses on a variety of rocks that children typically encounter, such as flat "skipping" rocks ("you toss it out in the water just so and see it trip across the surface, making a chain of spreading rings") to a "wishing rock ("with a stripe running all the way round it it must circle all the way. The book's design is exemplary as well; the words are matted against broad swaths of white space, while the glossy sheen of the photographs stands out vividly. From Publishers Weekly Hand-tinted black-and-white photographs lend a timeless quality to this contemplative picture book. Ages 6-9. A slight soft-focus effect helps suspend the subjects in timeDdespite the backpacks and sneakers, these children could be from any era. . Christian imbues her words with a childlike sense of wonder that lifts the everyday to the extraordina