From Grandmaster Flash to Jay-Z rap has shaped generations and transformed the charts. Bop along with the greats in this adorable baby book that introduces little ones to the rappers that started it all.

Includes chapters on rock-forming minerals, ores, igneous rocks, and precious minerals, and describes tests to determine minerals.

A brand new edition of The Rock Factory from the Science Works series, featuring lively storytelling and fun, engaging illustrations to aid children in their learning. Deep down underground the Earth's rock factory is mixing and melting, and squeezing and stirring, and baking and making rocks. In this revised edition from Jacqui Bailey, The Rock Factory tells the story of how a special sort of stone formed deep inside the Earth, and came to the surface thousands of millions of years later. The Rock Factory looks at how minerals turn into rock crystals, how the Earth is structured and how volcanoes happen. This book also contains an experiment, useful websites and an index. Book band: Lime Ideal for KS2.

Describe how a rock was formed deep in the mantle of the Earth and how it travelled to the surface over billions of years and was turned into a stone with the help of a volcanic eruption. Includes an experiment. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Originally published: London: A & C Black, 2003.