This Little Pebble begins with a child finding a small, forgotten pebble in his pocket. It uses this simple premise as a jumping-off point to explore what rocks are, where they come from and how fundamental they are to life here on Earth.

For readers aged six and up, This Little Pebble uses beautiful artwork to show the rich diversity of rocks all around us, with friendly, narrative text by award-winning children's writer Anna Claybourne making the book feel like a journey. It explores topics as fascinating and as wide-ranging as Earth's formation, the rock cycle, volcanoes and earthquakes, where precious stones come from and what fossils are. It also provides great support for for the topic of rocks in both the geography and science curriculum.

This book has been graded for interest at 7-9 years.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Hachette Children's Group .

Now based in Brazil with his wife and two sons, Sean Taylor is an award winning author who has published over 30 books. Sally Garland grew up in a small town near Inverness. According to her parents her first really good drawing was a large mural in crayon on their sitting-room wall. She then went on to study illustration and graphic design for four years at Edinburgh College of Art and now lives in Glasgow with her partner and their son. Anna Claybourne has been a writer and editor of children's non-fiction for over eight years.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: A pebble in my pocket
• 2: Rocks are everywhere!
• 3: The world is a pebble
• 4: Going down, down, down.
• 5: Jigsaw pieces
• 6: Earthquakes
• 7: Out of the volcano
• 8: Wearing away
• 9: A handful of sand
• 10: Round and round
• 11: Which is which?
• 12: Hard as a pebble
• 13: Carved by water
• 14: Made of stone
• 15: The Stone Age
• 16: A stone bone
• 17: Getting it out
• 18: Precious pebbles
• 19: Amazing pebbles
• 20: A pebble of my own
• 21: Activities
• 22: Glossary/Index