Let's Go Rock Collecting (Let's Read and Find Out Science Series)

Gans, Roma

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9780606115537: Let's Go Rock Collecting (Let's Read and Find Out Science Series)

ISBN 10: 0606115536 ISBN 13: 9780606115537

Publisher: Demco Media, 1997

Describes the formation and characteristics of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks and how to recognize and collect them

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About the Author:

The late Roma Gans was a
co-founder of the Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series.
How Do Birds Find Their Way?,
illustrated by Paul Mirocha, is one of her many titles.

Holly Keller is also the
illustrator of From Tadpole to Frog by Wendy Pfeffer and Who Eats What? by Patricia Lauber. She lives in West Redding, CT.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 3. More than just the title has been changed in this updated edition of Gans's Rock Collecting (Crowell, 1984). The topics are the same?basic rock formation; the characteristics of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks; the uses of rocks in the past (Roman roads, Egyptian pyramids) and the present (cement); and, finally, a bit about rock collecting. The excellent diagrams, full-color photographs of specimens, and minor textual changes clarify the concepts (for example, Mohs' scale of hardness) and extend the presentation. Gans barely introduces collecting rocks in the field and organizing and storing them, but the pair of youngsters featured in Keller's brightly colored illustrations certainly convey the joys of being a rock hound.?Carolyn Angus, The Claremont Graduate School, CA
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