Description:
The latest addition to the best-selling Backpack Explorer series (455,000 in print) invites kids ages 4 and up to head out on a rock-collecting adventure. Colorful activity pages, along with the magnifying glass (included in book) challenge kids to search for and identify a variety of rocks, minerals, and fossils; learn introductory geology; stack, sort, and craft with rocks; and record their rock hunting finds using the fold-out log page and enclosed sticker sheets.
Brief description: Storey Publishing, located in North Adams, Massachusetts, specializes in books for all ages that promote creative hands-on living and teach the skills to enhance enjoyment of gardening, nature and outdoor activity, cooking and food preserving, crafts, self-care and conscious living, backyard homesteading, animal raising, and a sustainable lifestyle.