Book recommendation: If You Find a Rock

Buy it: If You Find a Rock

If You Find a Rock (By Peggy Christian) – This is a wonderful book about all the different rocks that children can find as they go out and explore. My five-year-old daughter loved this book immediately and is now always on the lookout for each kind of rock mentioned in the book. The book features wonderful photographs of children finding and enjoying each kind of rock, from skipping rocks to chalk rocks to climbing rocks and splashing rocks. The book encourages children to explore and find the simple joys in nature – like sitting on a moss-covered rock or pushing over a rock to see what’s hiding underneath. And the book also talks about memory rocks, which just remind you of someplace or someone important. Since getting the book, my daughter has found a memory rock almost everywhere we go.

The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, and I have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!