My First Pocket Guide Rocks & Minerals

by National Geographic Kids

Illustrated and photographed with the renowned style of National Geographic. Explores everything budding rockhounds or geologists ages 6 to 10 need to know and answers their commonly asked questions regarding their natural environment.

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

With more than 600 titles—including the popular Weird But True franchise and the New York Times Best Selling National Geographic Kids Almanac—National Geographic Kids Books is the recognized leader in nonfiction for kids. Published in 28 languages, NGK Books reaches approximately 85 million kids every year.

Offering K-12 educators resources that align to and support the Common Core State Standards, National Geographic has a long history of providing high-quality informational texts suitable for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English language arts, social studies, and science classrooms.

Reviews

[Jan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loaded with photos of rocks and minerals, with clear notes and explanations about how to identify rocks. The differences between this "My First" pocket guide and a regular full-size one are:
1.) Larger font size for younger readers.
2.) Pronunciation help for the names of less familiar rocks and minerals.
3.) More youthful formatting with small colorful blocks of information, rather than dense text.
4.) Only 80 pages, compared to the full size 184 pages.

Perfect for 6- to-12-year-old rock lovers.