These Are My Rocks (a Story About Collecting)

A fantastically funny, interactive picture book that celebrates children’s love of collecting.

From the creator of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Little Red, These Are My Rocks is the perfect picture book for children who love collecting. 

Join the narrator, as they proudly introduce the reader to their prized collection, featuring BIG things to small things … and spiky things to wobbly things!

Each page is bursting with humour – and they are interactive too – with children encouraged to interact with the book, with invitations to point, make noises, clap their hands and think about what they could collect..

Interactive books engage young children and capture their natural curiosity and These Are My Rocks encourages the development of important early-learning skills such as listening, choosing, matching, counting and moving by playing on the theme of interaction. 

These Are My Rocks is stylish, humorous, inclusive and utterly engaging – and a celebration of children''s love of collecting. 

"The joys of collecting, artfully conveyed."

"Woollvin’s celebration of the art of collecting, and how children are fascinated by picking up rocks, acorns and toy cars, is now out in paperback."

Bethan Woollvin is an author and illustrator, best known for her feisty feminist fairytale series.

Retelling the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood, Bethan’s debut picture book ‘Little Red’ won the Macmillan Children’s Book Competition in 2014, was named a New York Times ‘Best Illustrated Book’ in 2016, won the AOI World Illustration Awards for children’s books in 2017, and was nominated for both the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award, and the Klaus Flugge Prize in 2017.

Bethan continued her twisted fairytale series, with ‘Rapunzel’, ‘Hansel & Gretel’ and her latest original tale, ‘I Can Catch a Monster’.

The latest title Bethan has worked on with another author is ‘Meet the Planets’ written by Caryl Hart.

This book celebrates children’s love of collecting, which often becomes something they’re interested in from the age of two, in a playful picture book format. From acorns to toy cars and everything in between, These Are My Rocks is the perfect title for little ones how love to collect.
 

Interactive books engage young children and capture their natural curiosity and These Are My Rocks encourages the development of important early-learning skills such as listening, choosing, matching, counting and moving by playing on the theme of interaction. Children are encouraged by the narrator to interact with the book, with invitations to point, make noises, clap their hands and think about what they could collect.

Bethan’s distinctive and bold style sets her art apart from the crowd and her debut picture book, Little Red propelled her into the forefront of the picture book world. Since then her work has been translated into nine languages and her titles continue to delight children, including her most recent Meet the… series which collectively has sold over 30,000 copies in the UK.