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My Mouth Is a Volcano 3 reviews
Julia Cook
CTC Publishing, 2006
Just plain fun
A great book to teach kids about the perils of interrupting others. How clever and with great illustrations.
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Zack Files 09: The Volcano Goddess Will See You Now (Zack Files)2 reviews
Dan Greenburg
Grosset & Dunlap, 1997
The Volcano Goddess Will See You Now
Great, funny book. My grandson 7 years old was traveling with us to Hawaii, this book was perfect. It was all about the misadventures of a little boy traveling with his Dad on his first trip to Hawaii. Not only was my grandson laughing and laughing but so was I. He couldn't wait to finish the book as we read it waiting in the airport and then on a interisland flight. My Grandson made sure ...
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Voyage to the Volcano 3 reviews
Judith Stamper
Scholastic Inc., 2003
good book for kids who love science
the magic school bus series continues to be agood for kids and good for adults too
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Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)8 reviews
Malcolm Lowry
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007
Complicated, Good prose, With Many Meanings, and Entertaining
This is a complicated novel that I found hard to start, but once reaching page 50 or so, things become much easier. This particular version has an introduction by Stephen Spender and an afterword by William Vollman. Frankly, they should be avoided until you have read the book. I bought and read this exact version and I read the commentaries after finishing the main text. Those two commentaries ...
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Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) 70 reviews
Malcolm Lowry
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
Eerily Depictive of Alcoholic Mind [11] [39] [T]
In order to follow one party for one day, the reader of this book must intensely focus upon the vagaries attributable to a dipsomaniacal protagonist - the Consul.
Lowry's relatively autobiographical novel (at one time there is reference to leave Mexico far away where the protagonist will handwrite while his adoring wife types his manuscript), can confuse the reader on many levels. First, ...
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A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger10 reviews
Eliane Whitehouse, Warwick Pudney
New Society Publishers, 1996
so helpful
I am an Elementary School Counselor. I got this book to help me put together small groups for some of my students. The book is wonderful. It is full of great and effective ideas. I bought many resources in the past, and this is by far the best one to help children understand and work through anger.
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The Volcano Lover: A Romance 11 reviews
Susan Sontag
Picador, 2004
Go slow is worth it.
What a wonderful book, I had never read anything written by the author, so I decided to give it a try and was not disappointed. The first 20 pages I had my doubts as her style was a bit odd as some of the conversations of the characters are mingled with the prose, which on third person describes the surrounding circumstances. However the book takes a rhythm quite unique that takes into account ...
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Volcano: Jump Into Science2 reviews
Ellen Prager, Nancy Woodman
National Geographic Children's Books, 2001
My 3 yr. old loves this book
My son loves volcanoes and I had been searching for a book about vocanoes that was not too technical and more to his age level. This book is it, it is very entertaining, the pictures are great, and the "narrator" is a dragon; what more could a 3 yr old ask for? I also bought one of the Eywitness books and a video to go with this book and he has, by far, wanted to read this book more than anything ...
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Vacation Under the Volcano (Magic Tree House, No. 13)16 reviews
Mary Pope Osborne
Random House Books for Young Readers, 1998
Historically accurate
We paired this with the Discovery Kids Magazine on Pompeii and found out that this book is a great way to find out about Pompeii and what happened, not just as a tourist attraction. It really puts kids in the moment of the time period. Every detail, down to the arrangement of the city was accurate. You can actually find a map replicating Pompeii and show your child where Jack and Annie went. ...
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Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park3 reviews
Greg Breining
Voyageur Press, 2007
Yellowstone: America's Nemesis?
Although I've long been interested in volcanoes, it took me awhile to fully accept the reality of supervolcanoes. I had orginally thought that the most dangerous category of volcano was the stratovolcano which arises along coastlines in subductions zones, as a picturesque conical mountain (for instance Mt. Fuji, Mt. St. Helens before it erupted). How could a relatively flat space on the earth, ...
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Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens2 reviews
Patricia Lauber
Aladdin, 1993
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
This nonfiction book is about volcanoes. It tells about the events leading to the erruption of Mount St. Helens. It describes, in exciting detail, the actual erruption and the eventual rebirth of the volcano. The photographs are great. They help to tell the story along with the words so that you can get a feel for the total destruction and devastation caused by the erruption. The nice thing ...
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The Volcano Sequence (Pitt Poetry Series)3 reviews
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002
Written with a truly literate and skilled economy of words
The poetry of Alicia Suskin Ostriker is complex, original, and written with a truly literate and skilled economy of words. The Volcano Sequence is a compilation of verse that fully showcases Ostriker a master poet in the full vigor of her imagination and wordsmithing talent. Learn To Recognize The Gestures: when her hands cup her breasts/she enjoys her sweet strength/sap ascends the oak//dancing ...
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The Volcano Adventure Guide8 reviews
Rosaly Lopes
Cambridge University Press, 2005
Volcano tours, geological and travel maps, tour descriptions
The Volcano Adventure Guide by Rosaly Lopes (a planetary volcanism expert for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California) is a marvel for both amateur volcano enthusiasts and professional volcanologists. Written especially for those who desire to personally explore volcanoes without being foolish or taking reckless risks, chapters are packed with advice for preparing for a volcano ...
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The Volcano Disaster9 reviews
Peg Kehret
Aladdin, 1998
Volcanic Disaster
The Volcano Disaster by Peg Kehret is one of the most exciting books I have ever read. Besides all the action packed into this book, it gives you the best facts on what happened on the day Mt. St. Helens errupted. It all starts as a class assignment with Warren and Betsy. These two partners are really not close. Warren has no time for this, he wants to continue his grampa's invevtion called ...
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Volcano (EXPERIENCE)
DK Publishing
DK CHILDREN, 2006
A completely unique approach to illustrated reference, DK's new Experience series uses panoramic storyboard sequences to help readers dive into the printed page and learn in a whole new way as the action unfolds.
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Understanding the Human Volcano: What Teens Can Do About Violence4 reviews
Earl Hipp
Hazelden, 2000
A Book For Teens By Teens
Mr. Hipps book, "Understanding the Human Volcano", is not just another one of the self help books written by a self-rightous adult about their view of teens. Mr. Hipp actually went out and gathered information about teens, from teens; like myself. This book deals with what seems to be the recent dramatic increase in teen violence such as witnessed at Colulmbine. Volcano is not a book just ...
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Diving to a Deep-Sea Volcano (Scientists in the Field)1 review
Kenneth Mallory
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
An excellent, eye-catching title, Diving to a Deep-Sea Volcano deserves a space on library display shelves.
Plenty of kids' books cover life underwater - but how many follow a scientist in his explorations in a research sub? A 'you are there' atmosphere for grades 3-5 is created in an engaging picture book which pairs color photos throughout with an account of scientist Rich Luz, whose explorations have changed the nature of deep sea science. An excellent, eye-catching title, Diving to a Deep-Sea ...
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Volcano: A Visual Guide2 reviews
Donna O'Meara
Firefly Books, 2008
ALL MEDIA REVIEW 5/STAR FABULOUS SCIENCE WRITING
This book is a visual masterpiece featuring science writing at its very best. No high school or college classroom should be without it. It is printed in gorgeous coffee table book formt and will make a rich book addition to any collection. One of the most comprehensive books about international volcanoes all over our planet ever published in fun easy to read prose caption.
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The Golden Volcano: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript (Bison Frontiers of ...
Jules Verne
University of Nebraska Press, 2008
The Golden Volcano thrusts two Canadian cousins—unexpectedly bequeathed a mining claim in the Klondike—into the middle of the gold rush, where they encounter disease, disaster, extremes of weather, and human nature twisted by a passion for gold. A deathbed confidence sends the two searching for a fabulous gold-filled volcano on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. But nature, both human and physical, hasn’t finished with them, and ...
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