Hill of fire [dvd videorecording]

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Title:

Hill of fire [dvd videorecording]

Author:

Escandon, Fernando.

Publication Information:

Lincoln, Neb. : GPN, 2003.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (28 min., 50 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

Reading rainbow ; 23

Series Title:

Reading rainbow ; 23

General Note:

Features the book of the same title by Thomas P. Lewis ; pictures by Joan Sandin. The book is based on a true story of the eruption of Parícutin volcano in Mexico, the volcano is born in the corn field of a poor farmer.

Other features: Fire down below ; Inside our earth ; Natural pottery ; Review books.

Abstract:

In a work of fiction, the birth of the Parícutin volcano is presented. Then, while at Volcano National Park in Hawaii, LeVar is only 2,000 feet from a major eruption of Kilauea Volcano. He tells about two kinds of lava and why volcanoes occur. LeVar talks to volcanologists who are studying the prediction of eruptions, and viewers learn what is inside our earth that causes volcanoes. LeVar also visits an artist--Chiu Leong--who creates raku pottery.

Subject Term:

Volcanoes -- Mexico -- Juvenile fiction -- DVDs.

Volcanoes -- Juvenile literature -- DVDs.

Volcanic activity prediction -- Juvenile literature -- DVDs.

Raku pottery -- Juvenile literature -- DVDs.

Geographic Term:

Parícutin (Mexico) -- Volcanic eruptions -- Juvenile fiction -- DVDs.

Parícutin (Mexico) -- Juvenile fiction -- DVDs.

Kilauea Volcano (Hawaii) -- Volcanic eruptions -- Juvenile literature -- DVDs.

Added Author:

Escandon, Fernando.

Burton, LeVar.