What does it actually feel like to be in an earthquake, or to stand close to a volcano when it erupts? This book answers by cutting the planet open. Over 50 flaps lift away rock and street to show the magma chamber under the mountain and the fault line running beneath the city.

It goes past the spectacle, which is where most volcano books stop. Why these forces happen, how they built the landscape we live on, and how people go on living in the places where they strike. That last part is what turns a page of drama into a page of understanding, and it is the reason the Usborne Look Inside series has stayed the standard for curious readers.

Emily Bone and Laura Cowan write for a six year old without writing down to one. Fourteen thick pages, flaps sturdy enough to survive the repeat lifting these particular spreads provoke, and enough real geology under them to be worth going back to.