Edward R. Ricciuti

I give this book a three star rating because there are components of the book that I really like while at the same time having aspects that can be improved. One reason why I like the book is because it provides a clear understanding of the three types of rocks as well as minerals, gemstones, and fossils. The one thing that I do not like deals with the field guide section where children can read all about the different types of minerals, rocks, or gemstones. In this section, the illustrator takes a picture of the specific object being identified and blows it up and sticks a few boxes of information over top of it. I think that this is very distracting. If they wanted to show what the grains look like or other identifying features they could have chosen to do a blow up of a piece of the rock so that it was only a part of the page. Other than that the information was well written and useful. The big idea of this book is to give children a reference guide for classifying different types of rocks and minerals they may pick up outside and tells them how they formed.… (altro)