The Icelandic volcano (whose name I can neither spell nor pronounce) has put this geologic phenomena into the headlines recently. What good timing for this new book by Lisa Westberg Peters! She has visited the volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii several times, and is fascinated by them. In this book, her poems provide several perspectives: from a small vocano ready to erupt, ferns and crickets that live near the volcano, a small blacktop road also near the volcano, as well as the sun and moon. Enhanced with cut-paper collage illustrations by Steve Jenkins, this is a nice supplemental resource for introducing volcanoes. End notes include additional information on Hawaii's volcanoes.
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