Customer Reviews

Looking at Rocks (My First Field Guides)

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This is not the be all, end all of rock books and rock identification books. This is a great introduction to rocks and rock hounding. It explains the different types of rocks. The pictures are clear and enhance the text and make this book a nice book for first time explorers or young rock hunters.

This is an excellent beginning book on the basics of rocks. It describes the different kinds of rocks, tells how they are formed, and gives descriptions of various rocks. The back contains a section for "field notes" where a young collector can keep a record of rocks collected. I read this to my five year old granddaughter and she enjoyed it very much and we both learned a lot. It would be appropriate for an older child also. Good science presently in a clear manner.

This is a birthday present for my 5 year old niece. She's going to need help with reading the words for a while yet, but this book is almost exactly what I wanted. It's a little short, but it IS a children's book.

It explains in some decent depth about how rocks are formed and where they come from. Part of the gift is a bunch of rocks we collected on our last vacation.

I'm hoping that this will spark an early interest in science.

Bought for my 8yr old niece, she loved it, was excited about reading as soon as opened. She was able to absorb the basics behind the explanations and to look for more questions. This book was well written and active pictures to keep young ones enchanted.

It's ok - I like the stickers with the different names and pictures of rocks. It is much smaller than I thought it would be. It also seems to have a little too many words and too few pictures for the age group I was expecting it to be for. After Christmas I'll know for sure if my nephew will ever look at it.

I purchased the book because I noticed my grandson's fascination with rock chrystals. He is seven years old, attending first grade, learning to read. On a day when he was visiting, I gave the book to him. He could not put the book down. He carefully sounded out words, checked to see if he had the chrystal described and then placed the included sticker properly by the description. The book covers the first basics of field identification: see, identify, record. The book is very small, it has quality paper, and it is colorful.

This book was obviously not well researched or well written. I wouldn't bother buying it as it will just confuse kids. Didn't define between rocks and minerals. If you are looking for a decent field guide for children look on, this isn't it.

The book concept is good. The child places the rock sticker on a page describing that rock. However, the stickers and the pages to not always match. There is a fool's gold page, but no sticker. My 4 year old still likes this book, but gets frustrated because a few don't match up. The amount of text on each page is good for 4-7 year olds.

The book was perfect for my 8 year old granddaughter. The cost worked for me as well.

The book arrived promptly and in excellent condition.

I bought this simple book for my 5-year old granddaughter who has shown an interest in looking at and collecting rocks. I haven't given it to her yet, so I don't know if it will hold her interest, but my quick review of the contents suggests that it does a good job at introducing a beginning geologist to the fascinating field of geology.