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Title: Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know
Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place

Author: Julia Ellen Rogers

Release Date: May 30, 2010 [EBook #32598]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Pike's Peak, Colorado]

EARTH and SKY EVERY
CHILD SHOULD KNOW

EASY STUDIES OF THE EARTH AND THE
STARS FOR ANY TIME AND PLACE

BY

JULIA ELLEN ROGERS

AUTHOR OF
"THE TREE BOOK," "THE SHELL BOOK," "KEY TO THE NATURE
LIBRARY," "TREES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW."

ILLUSTRATED BY
THIRTY-ONE PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1910

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A number of the photographs in this volume are used by permission of the
American Museum of Natural History. The star maps and drawings of the
constellations are by Mrs. Jerome B. Thomas. The poem by Longfellow,
quoted in part, is with the permission of the publishers, Houghton,
Mifflin & Co.

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CONTENTS

_PART I. THE EARTH_

PAGE

THE GREAT STONE BOOK 3

THE FOSSIL FISH 6

THE CRUST OF THE EARTH 9

WHAT IS THE EARTH MADE OF? 14

THE FIRST DRY LAND 22

A STUDY OF GRANITE 27

METAMORPHIC ROCKS 31

THE AIR IN MOTION 35

THE WORK OF THE WIND 44

RAIN IN SUMMER, _by