My Book of Rocks and Minerals: Things to Find, Collect, and Treasure

Props for a wonderful, educational, fun-filled book! This is illustrated beautifully and full of so much information. I bought this for Christmas for my rock-loving 6 year old who is just starting out his collection and comes to me constantly asking me to look up what he has found. I read through it when it came and found myself lost in it! I know he will absolutely love it, and I think it's a great read for all ages. I love that is has a chart of all the rocks and minerals so he can compare what he finds to learn how to identify it. I also love that this book does not explicitly mention "millions of years ago" as so many books of this nature do. Instead, it uses wording like "many years ago" or, "in ancient times." This probably doesn't mean much to most, but being a young Earth creationist, I really appreciate when we find books with more neutral wording that don't push evolution ideologies on my kids. This definitely checks the box for us!

DK never disappoints!

Excellent quality, well-written, interesting information, vibrant and engaging pictures too...just wonderful. Great value...highly recommend this book.

Nice

Great book full of facts and high quality pictures. I especially liked how they had geometric shapes to help explain different types of crystals! One of the best I’ve seen regarding crystals. I also loved the summary in the back with very high quality identification pictures for all the rocks in the book as a quick reference guide - super useful to budding geologists trying to classify their rock collections! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while so that was big win in my book. But… I took a star off because in some places I’d expect better editing/writing. I think this book needs a better edit, then it would be amazing (maybe second edition?). For example, language really should be tweaked for kids. I think a scientist wrote this - who at least is very knowledgeable- but instead of “thousands of specimens” maybe say “thousands of samples” - if you wanted to introduce vocab, great! But then define that word for the kids - there was ample space to do that. In fact, they included a glossary but didn’t include those more unfamiliar words but did include “rock”…that kind of thing can turn kids off…which is a lost opportunity to inspire and engage children (which should be the goal with these kinds of books). Editing issues I did not like: the picture of the Crystal Caves in Mexico - it wasn’t labeled, making the fact bubble confusing - it wasn’t clear it was talking about a specific cave. As an adult trying to understand this I had to read the prior page to figure out what they were trying to explain. Kids jump around, they should have done a simple picture label so as not to confuse kiddos. That isn’t the only case of editing that wasn’t on the mark. Like if you want to explain the concept of a carat, great! But make it relatable to a kid - even to an adult their explanation essentially gave you no understanding. All they had to do was state a carat is very small at 200 milligrams, equivalent to the weight of a paperclip - even better, they had pictures all over the page - make one to true scale for a carat!! Duh… As this is Penguin, not some self-published work, I thought they could have done a better job in many little ways to make this more relatable and understandable for children. All in all, solid book with good detail, fun facts and great photographs to help kids identify rocks, gems, and crystals. But publishers should take a moment to increase quality and read it once to kids and get feedback before putting it out there - they just cut corners on this - this reads too much like adult language simplified than truly written in the language of - and for - a child. Unfortunate miss for me in that way. I will keep but this isn’t a recommend.

My kid love to read

Very informative, easy to read for 8 years old and up.

My Grandson was collecting rocks so when I saw this book I had to get it for him. He loved it!!!!!

カラフル、シンプルな解説文、気軽に楽しめます。ハードカバー、ちょうど良いページ数と感じます。重さを感じない読みやすい量です。

Descriptive book What is mineral What is rock What is gem clearly described and explained Binding Page Cover okay Picture good Only you can say page design The sides of pages look like roughed marble You may doubt is book old or used?

The go-to book for any aspiring geologist. Easy to read format that is kid friendly

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I bought this book for a seven-year-old and he loves it. The only problem is that he is now pestering me for the rocks and minerals detailed in the book, including a diamond and other precious stones! A great book for kids - easy to read and lots of information.