 | I, Rock: A Geology Tale Author: Slivensky, Katie | |
| Price: $14.99 | ||
Summary:
Rock tells his sensational, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, geological tale to a group of eager students.
Reviews:
Booklist (05/01/25)
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Booklist - 05/01/2025 A rock stuck under a student’s shoe interrupts classroom presentations to tell its own four-billion-year-old story. The expressive, gray cartoon rock with large, round eyes starts its chatty geological tale deep underground, where it meets some of its minerals. After a tour of Earth’s layers and plates and their roles in volcanoes and earthquakes, the rock explains with humorous yet informative visuals and snappy, personalized descriptions how it cycles through the three types of rock (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic) over time. Whether blasted from a volcano, thrown onto land by a tsunami, or kicked by dinosaurs, the seemingly boring life of a rock is anything but. As the rock narrator introduces geological terms along the way, another professorial-looking rock highlights some of these terms with their definitions in blackboard fact boxes. While relating the final topic, erosion, the rock tumbles down the side of a mountain, waiting only a few million years before a student steps on it and brings the story back full circle. Concluding detailed geology and earth-science facts let readers rock on. - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
