POETRY - Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up - Lisa Westberg Peters

Illustrated by Cathie Felstead
2003, Greenwillow Books
HC $16.99
32 pages
Goodreads:  3.94
cag:  okay (art check +, poetry OK)

22 poems
Endpapers:  navy blue
Title page:  Light blue watercolor, 3/4 inch border, collage map globe, lots of colors
Auxiliary:  end notes give information about concepts covered in each of the poems
Author:  loves geology, lives with family in St. Paul, MN
Illustrator:  A resident of Hertfordshire,England, where she lives with her husband, 2 kids, and 6 cats.

I particularly liked these poems and will use them within my geology/rocks & minerals unit:

Recipe for Granite

Melt a chunk of continent.

Heat at a million degrees,
long enough for the world
to spin a trillion times,
long enough for the Milky Way
to make it partway to infinity.

Cool
slowly enough for crystals
to form like pink and white stars,
slowly enough for the dinosaurs
to go extinct.

Makes one mountain range.
Serves a whole entry.
Enjoy!

QuartzQuartzQuartz

We are surrounded

by quartz.  It’s in the

crystals of our watches, It’s

in the flint of our arrowheads, it’s

in purple amethysts, it’s in the sand of

our beaches and our sandpaper, it’s in the

granite of George Washington’s chin and

Crazy Horses’s nose in South Dakota, it’s

in the concrete of our sidewalks

and in the white pebbles we

throw on them when we

play hopscotch.