How Rocks Are Made - Fire, Pressure, and Time: A Children’s Guide to Rocks, Crystals, Volcanoes, Fossils, and Earth’s Hidden World (What, How, Why — Big Questions for Curious Minds) - Softcover

Brum, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798186926375

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Discover the hidden world inside Earth.

This science book for kids explores how rocks, crystals, minerals, and gemstones form through fire, pressure, water, and time. From volcanoes and magma chambers to fossils, caves, meteorites, and giant underground crystals, the book explains how Earth constantly reshapes itself beneath the surface.

Children will learn:

• how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks form
• how crystals grow underground
• how fossils become trapped inside rock
• why volcanoes create new land
• how diamonds, quartz, obsidian, and other minerals form
• how pressure, heat, erosion, and time change the planet

Includes a large visual catalog of rocks and minerals:
quartz, amethyst, granite, basalt, marble, jade, opal, meteorites, amber, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and many more.

Designed for curious readers ages 5–10, this book combines simple explanations with strong visual storytelling and real Earth science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798186926375
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Brum Alex
• Number of pages: 85