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aliciagriggs's review
4.0
Very interesting. Showing the amazing journey of something as overlooked as a pebble.
beth_books_123's review
4.0
Still a hit in Year 4.
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Turns out my class LOVE volcanoes.
Yeah they enjoyed it and their diaries and setting descriptions are fab so that's something... Thank you, Meredith Hooper.
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I adore this book - 4.5*
This book is rich! The depth of the vocabulary is actually beautiful and I totally commend Hooper for using this so carefully and clearly. It is a hidden non-fiction book but the storytelling in it is so enticing and engaging. I have learned so much about the history of the Earth just from one book. Hooper, I'm so excited to explore this with my new Y4s (2018-2019).
This will be my second book covered in Y4 and I am extremely looking forward to using this in English. I am hoping to immerse the children in the Stone Age with a variety of fiction and then setup a 'Book World Cup' to find our next pleasure read.
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Turns out my class LOVE volcanoes.
Yeah they enjoyed it and their diaries and setting descriptions are fab so that's something... Thank you, Meredith Hooper.
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I adore this book - 4.5*
This book is rich! The depth of the vocabulary is actually beautiful and I totally commend Hooper for using this so carefully and clearly. It is a hidden non-fiction book but the storytelling in it is so enticing and engaging. I have learned so much about the history of the Earth just from one book. Hooper, I'm so excited to explore this with my new Y4s (2018-2019).
This will be my second book covered in Y4 and I am extremely looking forward to using this in English. I am hoping to immerse the children in the Stone Age with a variety of fiction and then setup a 'Book World Cup' to find our next pleasure read.
mat_tobin's review
5.0
I had put off reading this for years because every time I opened it, I could tell it wasn't a picturebook at all: too dense with text and too factual. And then I came back to it and thought 'consider it an information text' and I was in!
A history of our Earth, from a mostly geological perspective, follows the journey of a single pebble from before anything lived on our planet right back to the moment where it rests between the fingertips of an inquisitive girl. This book is a concise, clever, very well tempered recount of the history of our planet.
Each double-page spread is filled, landscape-style, with a full-page bleed of tempestuous landscapes. Text mainly sits at the top and although dense, I don't think I'd take anything away from Hooper's writing: she packs a lot into the millions of years that lie on every page. The narrative focuses mostly on the gradual erosion of this one pebble which begun life as a rock fragment that tumbled down a mountainside 390 millions years ago. It shelters early mammals, gets tramped by dinosaurs and sinks into silt: all cleverly considered and brought to life through Coady's rich illustrations which are, thankfully, given the space they deserve. A handy timeline is added at the back.
A history of our Earth, from a mostly geological perspective, follows the journey of a single pebble from before anything lived on our planet right back to the moment where it rests between the fingertips of an inquisitive girl. This book is a concise, clever, very well tempered recount of the history of our planet.
Each double-page spread is filled, landscape-style, with a full-page bleed of tempestuous landscapes. Text mainly sits at the top and although dense, I don't think I'd take anything away from Hooper's writing: she packs a lot into the millions of years that lie on every page. The narrative focuses mostly on the gradual erosion of this one pebble which begun life as a rock fragment that tumbled down a mountainside 390 millions years ago. It shelters early mammals, gets tramped by dinosaurs and sinks into silt: all cleverly considered and brought to life through Coady's rich illustrations which are, thankfully, given the space they deserve. A handy timeline is added at the back.
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