Product Description

Become a nature activity adventurer! Get expert tips on rock and fossil hunting and try over 30 cool projects. Create an amazing crystal creations in a grapefruit skin or an earth-shaking volcano. Also includes a handy spotter's guide, showing you how to identify rocks, mineral and fossils you might find in your own backyard!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18976 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 72 pages

About the Author
DK Guide to Mammals author, Ben Morgan, is a freelance science editor and writer who has contributed to more than 50 books and magazines on science and natural history. After graduating in biology from Oxford University, he became Assistant Editor of the Royal Society’s Science and Public Affairs magazine before becoming freelance. He works regularly on the BBC’s flagship natural history titles and worked as a Senior Editor with the team that originated the DK Guides series in 1999. He produced the DK Guide to Space and the DK Guide to Weather, both of which won the Junior Science Book Prize. He is author of Dorling Kindersley’s DK Guide to Birds, The Human Body Revealed and Steck Vaughn’s forthcoming Atlas of Tropical Grasslands.

Customer Reviews

good book with lots of activities
my 6 year old has recenly got into rocks and fossils so I wanted to buy him a book on the subject. I looked at 2 books- this one and the Usborne Naturetrail book "Rocks & Fossils". I chose to buy this DK book but have since bought the other one as well since I did not feel that this was comprehensive enough. This book does have one very good element - it has fold out wipe clean covers showing over 100 different rocks and fossils and the places you are likely to find them so is a good guide to take out with you to help identify your finds, but is is mainly an activity book. There are about 23 different activites & experiments to try at home and when out & about which does not leave much room for information about the rocks themsleves and how they are created. This is where the Usborne book coems in (see my review of that book on its own page).

In conclusion, if you want a reference book, buy the Usborne book first. This does however make a very good companion to it and would be a good buy for some school holiday activities.