| Volcano Adventure (Red Fox Older Fiction) | 
 enlarge | Author: Willard Price
Publisher: Red Fox
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 399905
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 206
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0099182416
EAN: 9780099182412
ASIN: 0099182416
Publication Date: January 21, 1993
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Condition: wear and creasing to cover
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Inspiring May 5, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In response to D.Frigo: you do realise that this book was written in 1956 of course it is condescending to children. Everyone was a bit more blase about safety and their ideas about what was possible left a little to be desired. I agree that specific amounts regarding temperature are inaccurate but again this has to do with the time this was written. I doubt that as anyone grows up they will remember the inaccuracy on temperature. This book is inspiring. I still remember when I read them and how passionate I became about animals and the book report I gave on my favourite author. As a result of the interest it sparked I went on to gain a biology degree and am now teaching biology to other children and I have not wandered too close to any volcanoes as a result of the book. Get your children reading these books.
 What a missed opportunity! January 16, 2004
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
What a great idea: to introduce children to science in such a digestible manner. And what a let-down in the execution.
To be honest, I am still not entirely sure whether this book was written tongue-in-cheek. When I read the descriptions of "white hot" lava lakes at over 2000C, some dimensions of the described volcanoes exaggerated by an order of magnitude, and (perhaps most dangerously) accounts of volcanologists venturing into active areas without proper protective clothing, where bombs are continually raining from the sky and molten blobs of lava are landing around them, I don't know whether to chuckle or weep.
As if the reality of volcanoes were not amazing enough! Why mix good info that is to be fed to our children in with such distorted garbage? And how dangerous!
Okay, no child is going to repeat the episode outlined in the book in which (claimed to be based on reality!) a "diving bell" containing 2 of the characters is suspended over an active lava lake. But anyone can get too close to an erupting volcano, and I have to question how responsible it is, in the light of how many "volcano watchers" have been killed in the past decade alone (many of them volcanologists, incidentally), to make a visit to an active volcano read like an inclement walk along the sea front in Brighton.
I also found pretty offensive the book's condescending attitude to the Japanese students and their teacher.
I am saying nothing about the prose; suffice to say, J.K. Rowling, it ain't!
 Great Adventure Book for All Ages! September 29, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's superb! Funny, smart and also intense. I first read the book in the translated Chinese version and the contents really captured my imagination. Reading the book is a great way for people to learn more about nature and animal behaviors.
Brilliant! June 21, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the best books I ever read (apart from Harry Potter). Extremely exciting.
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