The Rock Factory
The Story about Rocks and Stones
Published on 12. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-80199-298-5 (ISBN)
Description
A brand new edition of The Rock Factory from the Science Works series, featuring lively storytelling and fun, engaging illustrations to aid children in their learning.
Deep down underground the Earth's rock factory is mixing and melting, and squeezing and stirring, and baking and making rocks.
In this revised edition from Jacqui Bailey, The Rock Factory tells the story of how a special sort of stone formed deep inside the Earth, and came to the surface thousands of millions of years later. The Rock Factory looks at how minerals turn into rock crystals, how the Earth is structured and how volcanoes happen. This book also contains an experiment, useful websites and an index.
Book band: Lime
Ideal for KS2.
Deep down underground the Earth's rock factory is mixing and melting, and squeezing and stirring, and baking and making rocks.
In this revised edition from Jacqui Bailey, The Rock Factory tells the story of how a special sort of stone formed deep inside the Earth, and came to the surface thousands of millions of years later. The Rock Factory looks at how minerals turn into rock crystals, how the Earth is structured and how volcanoes happen. This book also contains an experiment, useful websites and an index.
Book band: Lime
Ideal for KS2.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 7 to 9 years
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 230 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
128 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80199-298-5 (9781801992985)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
10/2023
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Education
€8.49
Available for download
Persons
Jacqui Bailey has spent a lot of her adult life working with children's books. She has been an editor and publisher of everything from picture books to encyclopaedias, but mostly enjoys finding out amazing bits of information and then writing about them. She is an award-winning author with more than 20 children's information books to her name, including A Cartoon History of the Earth series.
Matthew Lilly is an illustrator with over 40 years of experience in children's publishing. He has designed and illustrated a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles for several publishers and organisations including Walker books, Hachette and A & C Black.
Matthew Lilly is an illustrator with over 40 years of experience in children's publishing. He has designed and illustrated a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles for several publishers and organisations including Walker books, Hachette and A & C Black.