Book Descriptions
for The Big Rock by Bruce Hiscock
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
The natural history of a granite boulder in the Adirondacks is described briefly in a combination of easily understood paragraphs and full-color illustrations and diagrams. An effective introduction to geology links what can be observed now with what occurred during the previous millions of years. (Ages 6-11)
CCBC Choices 1988. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1988. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
The big rock is a granite boulder that began as molten rock millions of years ago. Through the ages, the mountains above it wore down, the ocean flooded over it, and then new mountains heaved the rock up to the surface. With full-color illustrations and simple diagrams, young readers learn about the history of our planet through the cycle of this prehistoric rock.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.