Inspire inquiry and dig deeper with this nonfiction text about volcanoes from all around the world. Author Julie Roberge provides highly engaging facts, stories, and context surrounding some of the world's most famous volcanoes while also shedding light on some lesser-known but nonetheless fascinating ones too. In the study of energy, major local landforms, layers of the Earth, and plate tectonic movements, students in Science grades 3 to 8, and students of all ages, can learn facts about volcanoes to extend their thinking and understanding of the formation of the Earth over time. Students might choose to zoom in on a specific volcano that interests them and research it further to design and create a replica of it in ADST and Arts Education. Further extensions might include students conducting science experiments to make their model volcanoes come to life. This book was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.

Other End Matter: Glossary
Images: Colour illustrations
Bibliography: No
Index: Yes

Source: Books BC - BC Books for Schools

Julie Roberge has been studying volcanoes around the world for over 25 years. Nicknamed the "Ash Hunter," she is originally from Nicolet, Quebec, and is a professor and research scientist at the Polytechnic School of Mexico (Instituto Politécnico Nacional). She did her bachelor's degree in geology at the University of Montreal, her master's degree at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi and her doctorate at the University of Oregon. Julie has been collecting rocks since she was young and it was the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 that ignited her passion for volcanoes. Today she hunts the ashes of erupting volcanoes to look for magmatic inclusions, small balls of magma caught inside crystals that go from 1200 to 25 degrees Celsius to become glass droplets during an eruption. She lives in Mexico City.

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Aless MC is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her practice is based on communicating ideas in a simple and colorful way. Aless is inspired by traditional printing techniques, Franco-Belgian manga and comic strips, and also forms in nature and symbols in culture.

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Charles Simard is a Québécois editor and translator from Montréal, also known as Tiohtià:ke and Mooniyaang. He works as poetry, fiction, and non-fiction editor for Talonbooks in Vancouver on Coast Salish Territory. His published work includes the essay Littérature, analyse et forme: Herbert, Tolkien, Borges, Eco (EUE, 2010) and a number of translations for Orca Book Publishers, including Elise Gravel’s The Wrench and Myriam Daguzan Bernier’s dictionary of sexuality, Naked. As a lexicographer, he has collaborated on the making of the popular linguistic suite Antidote in its bilingual editions. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in comparative literature from Université de Montréal and was a postdoctoral fellow at the City University of New York’s Graduate
Center. His doctoral and postdoctoral publications focused on the poetics of avant-garde composer and writer John Cage. He lives in Montréal, Québec.

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• Nominated, Forest of Reading Yellow Cedar Award
• Long-listed, Science Writers and Communicators of Canada (SWCC) Book Awards - Youth Category
• Commended, CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens
• Commended, Top Grade: CanLit for the Classroom
• Commended, Ontario Library association (OLA) Best Bets
• Commended, Junior Library Guild (JLG) Gold Standard Selection

“The text provides just enough information on specific volcanoes to sustain readers’ interest…Bold illustrations…could be used in an art lesson about graphic design and how to distill details to their simplest form without sacrificing the message in the illustration. Recommended.”

CM: Canadian Review of Materials

“Bursting with information…[An] excellent resource for individual research for upper elementary and middle school Science and Geography curriculums.”

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)

“Will be a popular addition to libraries…The bold graphic designs will enhance the reader's comprehension and serve the topic well. Recommended.”

School Library Connection

“Readers will come away from her...informative commentary with a wider knowledge of the shapes volcanoes can take.”

Kirkus Reviews