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On Sale: Feb 28, 2023
Page Count: 48 pages
Publisher: Storey
ISBN-13: 9781635865530

This rock-themed addition to the best-selling Backpack Explorer series gets budding geologists outside to learn about rocks, minerals, land.

Learn basic geology, with facts about landforms and igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Create a rock collection, sorted by color, shape, texture, and size. Search for rocks and minerals and learn how to classify them.

Backpack Explorer: Rock Hunt is packed with fun features, including:

50 stickers
12 interactive field guides
6 outdoor games
3 sensory scavenger hunts
A real magnifying glass
A pull-out journal to record notes

It’s the perfect guide for nature-curious kids ages 4 to 8 who love everything about rocks, from fossils to gemstones!

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Backpack Explorer

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Hardcover

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Storey Publishing’s children’s nonfiction books spark curiosity and joy, and inspire kids to learn, grow, connect, and discover new skills.

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Oana Befort

About the Illustrator

Oana Befort earned a Master’s Degree in Graphic Design and Visual Communication from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania. She has worked with Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters, provided illustrations for the Michael O’Mara title RHS Colouring Diary, and is now a freelance graphic artist and illustrator. Oana is a wife and mother of two children and is based in the Midwest.

Ciara Ni Dhuinn is originally from Ireland but now lives and works as an illustrator in Chicago. She illustrates for books and TV. Find her on Twitter @ciarasworld.

Harry and Zanna Goldhawk are a husband-and-wife illustrating team working from Penzance, Cornwall. They split their time between illustrating books and designing products for their business, Papio Press.

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