What Can You Do with a Rock?
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Publisher Description
From award-winning author Pat Zietlow Miller, a timeless story about creativity, exploration, and friendship
What can you do with a rock?
You can skip them.
You can sort them.
Best of all, you can share them.
Rocks are simple, but the things you can do with them are endless. Rocks can build, sparkle, and tell a story. They can be memories. They can even be a little bit magic. This ode to curiosity and creative play from New York Times bestselling author Pat Zietlow Miller and acclaimed illustrator Katie Kath is bound to inspire.
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"Some people don't notice rocks." But a light-skinned child with blue hair and an eager expression is the very model of a rock connoisseur in Zietlow Miller and Kath's picture book, which offers a litany of answers to the titular question. As watercolor illustrations celebrate the child's passion—showing rocks in piles, boxes, and natural settings—text reveals that a rock can be kicked, skipped, dropped, sorted, studied, and even used as a currency of connection, among other autonomy-building options ("Should your tiny white rock go with other tiny rocks? With other white rocks?... Only you can decide"). The book's premise stretches a little thin when reaching for metaphor ("People are like rocks. Some sparkle right away"), but this is a lively, emotionally resonant celebration of rocks as well as humans' ways of connecting with and learning about the natural world. Ages 4–8.
