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
Traces the origins of a granite rock located near the Adirondack Mountains and describes how it reveals information about the history of the earth.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
