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Eruption! Volcanoes And The Science Of Saving Lives (2013)

by Elizabeth Rusch(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0547503504 (ISBN13: 9780547503509)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: Loved this book, and the content was gripping! The reason it got 4 rather than 5 stars has more to do with design for me. It felt a little chaotic at times--the lack of consistency in how the photos were captioned and the horrible yellow-encased page numbers that kept drawing my eye away from the text. And at times, there were SO MANY features/sidebars/graphics that they really interrupted my thinking process about the subject at hand. So I loved the actual writing in this book, and I found it fascinating, but I would have liked a slightly less frenetic design, one that allowed the main text to be interrupted less frequently so that I wasn't constantly jolted out of the wonderful storytelling here.
review 2: I like the Scientist in the Field series and I was ta... moreken with this book--so dramatic! And such a nice example of world-wide collaboration . . . but I have been swayed by the discussions on the Heavy Medal blog that there is a subtle condescension in the description of the Indonesians. I am certain that it was not intentional and certain that will not bother most readers--nonetheless, I think agree that it's present and it makes the book slip in my estimation. less

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