The World's Most Amazing Islands

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Which island is home to many animals found nowhere else on Earth?

Why are the two halves of Iceland slowly moving apart?

Which island formed out of a volcano?

The world has many islands-from tiny, remote dots of rock, to huge countries with large populations. Find out about the extreme climates that helped ...

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Overview

Which island is home to many animals found nowhere else on Earth?

Why are the two halves of Iceland slowly moving apart?

Which island formed out of a volcano?

The world has many islands-from tiny, remote dots of rock, to huge countries with large populations. Find out about the extreme climates that helped shape these islands, the animals and plants that make their homes here, and the people who call them home.

This series introduces you to the highest, longest, widest, and most unusual landforms in the world!

Each book includes:

maps to show the location of each island

information about how the landforms were created

"trading card" boxes featuring amazing facts.

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Editorial Reviews

School Library Journal
Gr 3-5–These books open with a short overview of the landform and close with an outline of the environmental dangers to it. In between, a spread each describes the most (or, often, “one of the most”) extreme example of that feature. Entries consist of two short paragraphs of text; large, clear photographs; a sidebar of facts (some of the “That’s Amazing” listings are more tragic than amazing), and a small continent map with the place highlighted. While the color photographs are enjoyable, they do not always provide a sense of the feature. Coasts discusses the Curonian Spit, for example, but the photo shows dunes that could be on any coast. Some of the secondary features described are not shown; instead there are stock photos of something else. Also, it is not always clear why a landform is included. Explanations are overly brief and simplistic: Volcanoes provides nothing on plate tectonics, instead stating only that “Where there are cracks in Earth’s surface, the hot, liquid rock, called lava, can escape.” The opening explanation of the type of landform and the closing environmental information in these books can easily be found elsewhere. Finding the “Most Amazing” example of each formation will take a little more work, but the information provided in sources such as encyclopedias will be more thorough than that found here.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781410937001
  • Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
  • Publication date: 7/1/2009
  • Series: Landform Top Tens Series
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 8 - 10 Years
  • Product dimensions: 7.70 (w) x 10.60 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Table of Contents

Islands 4

Greenland 6

Madafascar 8

Hawaii 10

Sumatra 12

Rangiroa 14

Great Britain 16

Iceland 18

Galapagos Islands 20

Honshu 22

South Georgia 24

Islands in Danger 26

Island Facts and Figures 28

Find Out More 30

Glossary 31

Index 32

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