An Island Grows
By (Author) Lola M Schaefer
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
24th July 2006
United States
Children
Fiction
Commended for Cybils (Nonfiction Picture Book) 2006
Hardback
40
Width 238mm, Height 287mm, Spine 8mm
432g
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 waters 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.
Lola M. Schaefer is the author of several books for children, including An Island Grows; Pick, Pull, Snap! Where Once a Flower Bloomed, an NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts; and What's Up, What's Down She lives with her husband, Ted, in the mountains of north Georgia, where she occasionally observes the back end of a black bear, coyote, or gray fox.