Explore the incredible natural world of rocks and fossils with this fun-filled, action-packed reference book of activities for children.

Rock and Fossil Hunter explains everything you never knew about rocks, fossils, minerals, gems, and shells. Shine with glow-in-the-dark minerals, prepare to take the acid test, and take cover for flying space rocks!

With more than 30 hands-on practical projects to try out at home, younger readers are spoilt for choice. Start your own rock collection, grow your own gemstones, make a fossil bone, build a sandstone castle, or even create an erupting volcano! Each activity comes with easy step-by-step instructions and specially commissioned photography to help you, all the while learning about the geology of rocks, Earth's changing landscape, and much more.

More than 50 stunning stickers are included alongside the activities.

Get building, making, creating, and learning with Rock and Fossil Hunter.

This book features in the following series: Dk Eyewitness, Dk Nature Activities .

There are 72 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2015 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd .

DK Guide to Mammals author, Ben Morgan, is a freelance science editor and writer who has contributed to more than 50 books and magazines on science and natural history. After graduating in biology from Oxford University, he became Assistant Editor of the Royal Society's Science and Public Affairs magazine before becoming freelance. He works regularly on the BBC's flagship natural history titles and worked as a Senior Editor with the team that originated the DK Guides series in 1999. He produced the DK Guide to Space and the DK Guide to Weather, both of which won the Junior Science Book Prize. He is author of Dorling Kindersley's DK Guide to Birds, The Human Body Revealed and Steck Vaughn's forthcoming Atlas of Tropical Grasslands.