Maybe Africa and South America used to be best friends.
Maybe a clam that died 300 million years ago is in your backyard.
What secrets is Earth hiding? These twenty-two poems leave no stone unturned in exploring the world's natural wonders.
Crack this book open and watch geology sparkle.
Lisa Westberg Peters is the author of Sleepyhead Bear; Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck; Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up; and several other books for children. She lives with her family in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Cathie Felstead has also illustrated Big Wolf and Little Wolf, by Sharon Phillips Denslow, and An Island Grows, by Lola M. Schaefer. She studied illustration at the Royal College of Art in London and lives in Hertfordshire, England.