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Your world is about to change forever. Beneath your feet, a molten hell brews--and its boiling fury can no longer be contained within the Earth's thin crust.
A farmer's field in Mexico is about to become the birthplace of the 2,000-foot high volcano known as Paracutin. Volcanoes brings you the shocking first-person reports of those who have witnessed the violent rage of a volcanic eruption. Why do volcanoes erupt? What strange, changed landscapes do they leave behind? How can scientists predict future volcanic activity? And where were the deadliest eruptions in history? Students will find all the answers in detailed chapters on the science and history of nature's most primordial phenomena. Every young reader will respond to eyewitness accounts of landscapes suddenly alive with sulfuric gases, ashes spread across vast areas, and boiling hot lava consuming everything in its path. Prepare to be awestruck.
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The National Geographic Kid is curious about the world around them, empowered in the face of challenges and responsible for others and the natural world. Combining these principles with the international educational heritage of Collins, this partnership is a natural fit for books that are funny, weird, exploratory, educational and loved by children.
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 4-7-Volcanoes are big in the imagination, bigger in reality, and even larger in the Earth-science curriculum. The Fradins describe a passel of these behemoths, from the well known (Mount St. Helens) to the less heralded (the Loihi seamount), showing how their fierce pyrotechnics can affect such disparate factors as weather, geography, local economies, and history. Handsome color photos, a diagram, and two small maps accompany the clearly written text. Larded with interesting quotes ("I realized that the soles of my shoes were starting to melt"), the discussion ranges from lahars to tiltmeters, and from magma chambers to pyroclastic flows. A glossary and further-research suggestions are included, as is a bibliography and a list of persons interviewed by the authors as they carried out their own research (a nice touch).Team this title with Susanna Van Rose's detailed Volcano & Earthquake (DK, 2004), Patricia Lauber's classic Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mt. St. Helens (S & S, 1986), Donna O'Meara's intensely personal Into the Volcano (Kids Can, 2005), and Elizabeth Rusch's investigative Will It Blow? (Sasquatch, 2007) for an explosion of volcanology.-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
The Fradins cover well-traveled territory here in describing the causes of volcanoes and several of the better known eruptions--but they add an unusual slant by interviewing 20 scientists and eyewitnesses, tucking in brief comments from each. The accompanying photos aren't all repeats either. Added to the familiar scenes of lava flows down Kilauea, an aerial view of Santorini and Mount St. Helens's collapse are arresting shots of a car--and a town in Iceland--nearly buried in ash, massive lightning strikes in the cloud over Surtsey and an Indonesian child wearing a homemade loose-leaf paper mask after the 2006 eruption of Mount Merapi. Young readers will get a good sense of the awesome scale of a volcanic eruption, as well as a dose of basic background information. (maps, glossary, multimedia resource lists) (Nonfiction. 9-11) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
"This offering from the new Witness to Disaster series introduces readers to these violent eruptions, using eyewitness accounts to explain the history and science involved. They begin with a report of the 1943 birth of a volcano in Paricutín, Mexico, which grew to a height of almost 2,000 feet and completely destroyed a farmer's cornfield and an entire village. Subsequent chapters describe other celebrated volcanoes, explain their causes and types, note the benefits of these eruptions, and clarify how they are currently predicted. New vocabulary is defined within the text and in the appended glossary. Numerous clear, well-chosen photographs and diagrams help to convey the great power of volcanic activity and the consequences to humans. Pull-quote comments from volcanologists, other scientists, and everyday witnesses to these disasters, designed to hook readers' interest, are a distinct plus. Capped with the usual back matter, this will be useful for report writers, and a fascinating pick for browsers."--"Weisman, Kay" Copyright 2007 Booklist
