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Backpack Explorer: Rock Hunt

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Backpack Explorer: Rock Hunt invites children on an exciting adventure to explore the world of rocks. It's a field guide filled with fun activities, vibrant photographs, and engaging tidbits about geology. Young readers will discover how to identify different types of rocks and enjoy interactive elements like stickers and checklists that make learning both interactive and delightful.
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Format: Hardback
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You might enjoy this engaging children's book if your young explorer loves adventure and has a keen interest in the natural world. It's perfect for budding rock enthusiasts, inspiring curiosity and hands-on learning with fun activities and fascinating facts about rocks, minerals, and fossils.

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Backpack Explorer: Rock Hunt

"The latest addition to the Backpack Explorer series invites kids ages 4 and up to head outside and find, collect, and learn about rocks with this take-along activity book! Backpack Explorer: Rock Hunt is packed with prompts and activities about geology, landforms, gems, fossils, and more"--

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The latest addition to the best-selling Backpack Explorer series (455,000 copies in print) invites kids ages 4 and up to head outside and find, collect, and learn about rocks with this take-along activity book!

Backpack Explorer: Rock Hunt is packed with prompts and activities, including:

  • 12 interactive field guide pages introducing rock classifications (colour, shape, size, texture)
  • Sensory scavenger hunts
  • Hands-on outdoor creative activities
  • Rock experiments
  • Discovery zone pages with facts about geology, landforms, igneous and metamorphic rocks, gems, fossils, and more

The book includes a real magnifying glass, stickers, and a log for recording rock finds, making it the perfect explorer guide for budding geologists, whether in a backyard, a city park, or a nature preserve.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781635865530

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Full-color; photographs and illustrations througho

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Oana Befort

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 186.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 48

About the Author

Storey Publishing, located in North Adams, Massachusetts, specializes in books for all ages that promote creative hands-on living and teach the skills to enhance enjoyment of gardening, nature and outdoor activity, cooking and food preserving, crafts, self-care and conscious living, backyard homesteading, animal raising, and a sustainable lifestyle.

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