Picture Book: Everybody Needs a Rock
Author: Byrd Baylor
Illustrator: Peter Parnall
Summary: Byrd Baylor is seriously passionate about everyone having a rock for a friend. She views rocks as much superior to other kinds of child companions such as bicycles and playhouses. So she offers 10 rules for finding your very own rock, a rock that you might even keep forever.
Hanna’s Comments: This author's wit and enthusiasm for the objects that might have been the first toys in human history is delightful and contagious. After reading this book, I was desperate for a rock hunting expedition. Encourage the children in your religious community to go on such an expedition.
Publisher & Date of Publication: Charles Scribner’s Songs, 1974
Age & Grade Appropriateness: 5 and up, K and up
# of Pages: 32
Available in Spanish? Not at present
Formats other than Book: Tablet, Amateur videos on Youtube.com
PBT Category: Classic
PBT Topics this Book Connects with: artifacts, attentiveness/observation/seeing, choices/decisions, collections, comfort, Earth/world, the environment/nature, exploration, found, God’s nature, God’s presence, journeys/pilgrimages/migration/quests, land/mountains/soil, possessions, reverence, rocks/shells/stones, searching, strength/strength in God, treasure
Scripture Connections: The Lord is my rock and my fortress (Psalm 18:2); you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church (Matthew 16:18)
Idea(s) for Application: Use this book with children when talking about metaphors for God such as God as a rock or in a lesson on Peter, Jesus’ disciple.
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