With more than 1,200 incredible images, you can discover the world’s most precious and fascinating objects, from rocks and gems to fossils and shells. Earth’s extraordinary minerals, gems, shells, and fossils are all on dazzling display in this essential visual encyclopedia for children – an indispensable guide to the natural world’s most remarkable treasures, showing each rock, mineral, fossil, and shell in its natural form, alongside the wide range of everyday and unexpected objects in which they’re found. Feast your eyes on the ultimate treasure trove that any pirate would envy: this genius geology book for kids has over 1,200 stunning photographs showcasing rocks and gems in glorious detail, ensuring readers can recognise sedimentary from sandstone, metamorphic from marble, and pyrite from pearl. The unique qualities of each eye-catching material are described in depth, together with their broad range of uses in art, industry, architecture, and science. Treasure seekers can get set to start their own collection with this engaging encyclopedia for children aged 9-12, exploring striking and detailed diagrams, drawings, and illustrations on every page, a highly visual approach to learning, colourful diagrams paired with infographic text boxes, and CGI reconstructions that show whole animals to help make sense of fossil fragments. Keep an eye out for rainbow rocks, fluorescent minerals, priceless diamonds, and meteor showers on this geological journey of discovery: meet dinosaurs in the prehistoric period to understand how fossils form, join the pyramid builders of ancient Egypt to investigate limestone bricks, and take a dip in the ocean hunting for clams, cowries, and cockles. This captivating children’s encyclopedia also includes at-a-glance panels offering a quick reference to all the key stats, with easy-to-read text for ages 9-12 that the whole family can enjoy, making it a beautiful and educational gift that can be passed down through generations. Learn all about the world one picture at a time – and if you like The Rock and Gem Book, why not complete the collection? Part of the highly visual Our World In Pictures series, readers can dive into the world of dinosaurs with The Dinosaur Book, become a vehicle virtuoso with Cars, Trains, Ships and Planes, and venture across the globe with Countries, Cultures, People & Places.
ISBN 13: 9780241228135
Author: Dan Green
