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. ( )

This book personifies different kinds of rocks and tells a narrative of where they come from, the different kids, and where they can be found. Along with the narrative there are sections with facts that are apart from the story. These facts talk about the rocks in depth, more that the story line does. The illustrations in this book are stunning and I would use it for a read aloud. This concept can be integrated with writing, reading, and even social studies or art. I would use this book for multiple purposes. ( )