If You Find a Rock

by Peggy Christian

Overview

Think of all the rocks there are: skipping rocks, splashing rocks, climbing rocks, and wishing rocks. Children can’t help collecting them. With joyful, poetic text and luminous photographs, If You Find a Rock celebrates rocks everywhere—as well as the mysterious and wonderful places they are found.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780152063542
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/01/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	AD740L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

PEGGY CHRISTIAN has been a reading specialist, a bookstore manager, a teacher of language arts and writing, and the author of a picture book, If You Find a Rock. She lives in Missoula, Montana.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

[set star] “A work of art in every regard.”—Publishers Weekly“Poignant, lyrical . . . [A] gem.”—School Library Journal “Elegant.”—The New York Times Book Review

Editorial Reviews

[set star] “A work of art in every regard.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)“Poignant, lyrical . . . [A] gem.”—School Library Journal “Elegant.”—The New York Times Book Review —

From the Publisher

With hand-colored photos of grave children holding, sitting on, or clambering over rocks, Christian (Chocolate, A Glacier Grizzly, 1997) poetically suggests picking up pebbles to see if they are skipping rocks or scraping rocks, wishing rocks or worry rocks, or perhaps just rocks with marvelous things in or under them. Lember (The Shell Book, 1997) adds muted but natural-looking tints to soften the lines in her woodsy, idyllic outdoor scenes. Like Meredith Hooper's Pebble in My Pocket (not reviewed), this suggests to children the rewards of taking closer looks at these most commonplace of natural objects. (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews