Kids will find out what it's like to witness a volcanic eruption. Using thumb indexes, they can zoom through time--minutes, days, years, or sometimes even centuries--from one page to the next.

Includes index.

25,000 years ago -- The year 500 BC -- August 24th AD 79 10 am -- Two hours later-- -- One hour later-- -- Later that afternoon-- -- Early next morning-- -- One year later-- -- More than 1,000 years later-- -- The year 1785 -- A hundred years later-- -- Today.