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This is the story of the birth of an island, from the first red-hot glow of magma at the bottom of the ocean, to the flowing lava that hardens and builds up higher and higher until, finally, it breaks through the water′s surface.
And then, life comes to the island. First come the small plants and animals, and later, people. This is a tale as old-and as new-as the ground we walk on.
Author Notes
Lola Schaefer is an author, teacher, speaker and writing consultant who is passionate about helping children learn the tools of writing so they can express themselves.
Lola is the author of more than 200 books for children including picture books, easy readers, classroom books and informational texts. Her book Frankie Stein, published by Marshall Cavendish in 2007, was awarded the Children's Choice Book Award in 2008 and the Mockingbird Award in 2009.
As an educational consultant, Lola has worked in dozens of schools across the country. She shares effective classroom strategies on writing workshop, the craft of writing, and genre structures. Lola offers demonstration lessons, as well as general presentations on craft mini-lessons and the art of writing. She is the author of ten Scholastic Professional Resource books for teachers that focus on strategies to improve student writing.
Lola lives with her husband Ted in the mountains of north Georgia. (Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-This deceptively simple picture book traces the development of an island from an undersea volcanic eruption to a lush, bustling homeland. Similar in format and style to Schaefer's This Is the Sunflower (Greenwillow, 2000), it has large print and uses poetic language to describe a natural phenomenon: "Waves pound./Sands mound." The colorful, bold collage illustrations are a perfect complement to the text. Like the narration, the seemingly elementary art is carefully composed, tells a complete story, and exudes energy. This appealing work can be used as a read-aloud, a beginning reader, or a basic science book. Isaac Nadeau's Islands (Rosen, 2006) and Angela Royston's Islands (Heinemann Library, 2004) cover the same topic in a traditional nonfiction series format.-Heide Piehler, Shorewood Public Library, WI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
(Preschool) Schaefer covers the development of a volcanic island in stages: first, a science stage, in which an underwater volcano erupts, builds into an island, and eventually becomes a place for seeds to grow and a home for birds and insects. Then a social stage, in which people arrive and build a thriving community. The appealing rhyming statements (""Magma glows. Volcano blows. Lava flows and flows and flows""; ""Settlers stay. Children play"") are perfectly pitched to young readers yet are remarkably sophisticated in their coverage of all aspects of the science of island formation. The book's clean layout showcases colorful cut-paper collage illustrations that serve equally to creatively interpret the science sections and to capture the vibrancy of island life. Detailed information about volcanic island formation closes the book. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
A volcano forms under the ocean, erupts to form land, erodes and acquires flora, fauna and eventually human population. This highly simplified explanation of island formation attempts to distill complicated geologic processes into rhyming couplets for the youngest reader, often using no more than two words on a page. Colorful cut-paper collages illustrate the text and seem to set the story in the Caribbean, although the suggested follow-up reading is about Iceland, Hawaii and the Galápagos. Inevitably, the simplification leads to distortions and omissions. The pictures, for example, show lava pillows mounding up from the ocean surface and suddenly becoming sharp rocks. Perhaps for the sake of the rhyme, trees grow before the flowers, and birds arrive even later, although, in fact, as explained in the afterword, the birds help bring the seeds for the new island's vegetation. Introduce this science topic to readers capable of taking in greater detail. (Picture book/nonfiction. 4-7) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
PreS-Gr. 2. In this picture book Schaefer chronicles the formation of a volcanic island, the changes wrought by waves and weather, and the transformations brought about by the arrival of plants, insects, birds, and people. At the book's end, another volcano erupts beneath the sea, and the process begins again. Short phrases in rhymed couplets create a distinctive, staccato text for the simple geology lesson: Stone breaks. / Water quakes. / Magma glows. / Volcano blows / Lava flows / and flows / and flows. / An island grows. The last page offers a more detailed description of the geological forces that form volcanic islands, followed by a short bibliography. As economical and vivid as the verse, Felstead's artwork will enable children to visualize the island in each stage of development--from a fiery magma beneath the water to a place with a distinctive ecosystem, community, and culture. A good choice for preschool and primary-grade science collections. --Carolyn Phelan Copyright 2006 Booklist