I Face the Wind (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor (Awards)) Review

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I Face the Wind (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor (Awards)) ReviewAlas poor science books. Forever to be doomed to the non-fiction section of the library where, occasionally, a student will pull one out to help with their school's science project. I've always found children's scientific picture books to be especially depressing little creations. More often than not they're drawn or illustrated in such a way that their messages go out of date, even as their science remains correct. Fortunately for us all, I don't think this will be the fate of "I Face the Wind". True, it's trendy. But it is also such a nice little compilation of facts and experiments that I hope it doesn't disappear too quickly in the unused library shelves for all time.
The book begins with a "Note to the Reader". That reader, as it happens, is actually the adult who will be reading this book with their child. The note implores "readers" to allow their children to first read about the experiments and then find their own results before moving on in the book. This might get a little tedious if the experiments were vast complicated affairs. Fortunately, author Vicki Cobb has limited experiment materials to those objects people already have around their house(tape, wire hangers, etc.). No experiment is dangerous and none of them require adult supervision in any way.
The book is sort of an Intro. to Science for younger children. Kids will enjoy the bright colorful illustrations. Each scene takes place across a pure white background, occasionally dotted by a window or a tree. The pictures will certainly date in 5 to 10 years down the road, but if you want something that will make your kids interested in science NOW, then this is the book for you. And hey, it won the Robert F. Sibert Honor in 2004! If you're brave enough to take a chance introducing your kids to a little well wrought non-fiction, this here's a good starter book for them to consider.I Face the Wind (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor (Awards)) Overview

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Weather Wars & Un-Natural Disasters Review

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Weather Wars & Un-Natural Disasters ReviewI first got interested in this book because Stephen Quayle is a somewhat frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM radio show and he always strikes me as uber interesting, wild, quite sane -- and very Christian.
And I think that is how I would have to characterize this book as well. Though it is softcover, it is big and heavy and full of a lot of fascinating things, like about how:
* The U.S. and other nations are secretly perfecting their skills of weather modification, which is sometimes used as a distraction from other practices that are secret and a quote from past U.S. National Secretary of Defense William Cohen (from his talk at the University of Georgia at a Symposium on April 28, 1997) where he said among other things that there are those who are engaging in an "eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves." Quayle is quick to add that the U.S. and other governments have been working at this even hardest than any "terrorist groups." Global Warming is blamed for any strange weather phenomena as a cover. [Ah! I knew I couldn't trust Al Gore! haha] Global Warming is what they came up with when they found out that people just weren't buying the "coming Ice Age" story (and Quayle give a long quote that was published in Newsweek magazine that was meant to sway the public toward the belief in a coming Ice Age).
* Scripture is sprinkled generously into this book -- which is probably too bad, because a lot of non-Christians are bound to be turned off to reading this book for that reason.
* He quotes from things like a military symposium held in 1996 which talks a lot about weather modification. The paper, effectively made public by being placed on the Worldwide Web, which may or may not have been meant for civilian eyes. No one knows just how that happened. (It was yanked.) The full report has been copies in various places on the Net but the mainstream press scarcely if ever covered it and the Air Force has since made public statements that they no longer experiment with weather modification.
* The book covers cloud seeding, nanotech, HAARP, tsunamis, coverups and more.
For some reason I can't quite figure out, the title of one chapter is "The Evil in New York City." This chapter seems to be a treatise on how those who believe in reincarnation are anti-Christian (and therefore evil). I don't get that one, being a Christian that is open to he idea that reincarnation may exist. It is connections like that that cause me to give this book 4 rather than 5 stars. Sometimes, I feel, Quayle "just loses it."
All that said, there is a LOT more to this book that I listed above (which was just to give you a taste).
Personally, I think there is a WEALTH of hard-to-find information in this book, but one has to be willing to separate the wheat from the chaffe, especially in regard to the connections Quayle makes based on his own particular brand of rather fundamentalist Christianity. I would have much preferred he have written two books: one about the Weather Wars and Un-Natural Disasters and another about his religious beliefs which are (in my opinion) rather narrow-minded.Weather Wars & Un-Natural Disasters Overview

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