An Island Grows- Nonfiction: Informational

An Island Grows is an informational book about the creation of the land that we live on. It is made up of rhyming couplets that explain step-by-step the formation of islands. The book starts off by showing a volcano erupting under water. It explains how the hot magma hardens on the bottom of the ocean and keeps building up. Eventually, the hardened debris builds up so high that it breaks through the surface of the water. This is when the island is formed. Small plants begin to grow on the island and animals come. Eventually, this island is found by people and they begin to settle on it. This is how the land we live on has been created over time. I think that this book would be great for young children. It gives them a good idea of how land came about, without going into anything that would be too confusing to them. The pictures in the book are phenomenal for giving visual representations of the different steps. I think that kids would also like the book because of its rhyming patterns. If older children wanted to learn more in depth about this, there is an informational page included at the end that tells about the formation of land.