Let's rock: rock painting for kids (Revised edition.)

Lively writing, colorful photos, and bright borders make this craft book particularly inviting.

The real fun begins with Linda Kranz offering step-by-step, well-illustrated directions for decorating small, flat stones with flowers, animals, heart shapes, sports motifs, foods, places, holiday designs, and more.

The finished items are perfect gifts, which young children, perennially in search of inexpensive presents, will appreciate.

By providing hours of creative entertainment at little cost, this offering is sure to be popular with crafty children and their teachers and caregivers.