Beautifully illustrated exploration of rocks with lyrical text.

This book was beautiful, but I felt the book was missing something kids could connect to - I am not quite sure what that was.... it just needs something that would make the kids full of wonder beyond enjoying the images.

This is a lovely educational, and fun book with beautiful illustrations coupled with lyrical text. This is a factual book about rocks and precious stones. With interesting facts about how rocks are formed, their uses, history, and terminology. ( )

This book is an encyclopedia that students can use as a reference for research. This is an informational book that introduces students to the world of rocks. I would use this book to teach geology. The illustrations are fascinating so I would use this book as a resource for all grades in elementary school. ( )

A Rock is...Lively?? This book provides a fresh perspective on rocks - and it has some of the most beautiful endpapers ever. (Pair it with a trip to a natural history museum, if you can!) Each double page spread features one line of poetic primary text in a script-style font ("A rock is lively...bubbling like a pot of soup deep beneath the earth's crust..."), and a paragraph or more of secondary text which is more factual but still somewhat poetic ("Comets are balls of rock and ice - sometimes called 'dirty snowballs' - that are heated by the sun and soar through space, leaving glowing ribbons of dust behind them"). Highly recommended: younger children can enjoy the primary text and the gorgeous illustrations, and older ones can absorb the more detailed facts as well. ( )