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Prairie Storms Review

Prairie Storms
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Prairie Storms ReviewHave you ever sat outside to watch the dark clouds build up and a storm roll in? This book about the prairie or grassland habitat details the different kinds of storms that normally come in each month of the year on the prairies and what various sorts of animals in that habitat do when they occur, such as the prairie chicken in a January snowstorm, the sand crane in a March tornado, the red fox in a May rain shower, the striped skunk in a July dust storm, the burrowing owl in an August cloudburst, and the bald eagle in a November ice storm. Other animals mentioned include the ground hog, prairie dogs, white tailed deer, the earless lizard, the cougar, and the bison. Other weather phenomena discussed include fog, a flash flood, a thunderstorm, heat lightning during a drought, hail, and blizzards. By the way, do you know what grassland prairies are called in South America?
The six "For Creative Minds" pages in the back feature more information about the grassland habitat, finding grasslands around the world, a weather and seasons matching activity, and questions about weather and seasonal changes relating to both animals and humans. The publisher's website offers even more online resources for parents and teachers with sixty to seventy pages of cross-curricular teaching activities and three interactive reading and math quizzes all related to Prairie Storms and aligned to state standards. There are so many benefits in a book like this--familiarizing children with the months and seasons of the year, introducing them to the different kinds of inclement weather, and helping them understand more about the various sorts of wildlife which inhabit the prairie. Darcy Pattison's lyrical prose text and Kathleen Rietz's realistic illustrations make this celebration of the great American prairies a real winner.
Prairie Storms OverviewWhere the land is flat, the sky's dome becomes a blank canvas forstorms. In this lyrical book, experience a year of prairie storms fromthe point of view of native wild life who must shelter, hide, escape,disappear, endure and withstand those storms. Watch the sand hill cranes avoid the tornado, the red fox thrill to asoft evening shower, the earless lizard shimmy as it disappears beneaththe burning sands of summer, the cougar dodge hail stones, the baldeagle shed sleet and the bison face into the teeth of a blizzard andstand defiant. Each month features a storm typical of that season and aprairie animal in its normal habitat. The prairie biome or ecosystem isexplored through its weather, especially its storms. Told in lyricalprose, this story is a celebration of the grasslands that dominates thecenter of American lands.For Creative Minds: lesson plans for teachers or parents included. Publisher's site has additional lesson plans. K-3 science, language arts.

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When a Storm Comes Up (Rookie Read-About Science) Review

When a Storm Comes Up (Rookie Read-About Science)
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When a Storm Comes Up (Rookie Read-About Science) ReviewThis book is a little smaller than most early readers, but my kids love it. Most of the photos are dramatic two-page spreads, and the words are not very difficult. My kids have read it again and again, and I like that they are practicing some complicated meteorological words.When a Storm Comes Up (Rookie Read-About Science) OverviewFrom friendly dolphins to giant pandas, from icebergs and glaciers to energy from the sun, from magnets to solids, liquids, and gases, Rookie Read-About Science is a natural addition to the primary-grade classroom with books that cover every part of the science curricula. Includes: animals, nature, scientific principles, the environment, weather, and much more!

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Tree House in a Storm Review

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Tree House in a Storm ReviewWho can't relate to a child's need to create a special place of his or her own? Kenny, the boy in this story, is lucky enough to have a generous tree in his back yard, a sister to join him in his treetop kingdom, and a mother who sends lunch up on a pulley. Rachelle Burk has a special gift for understanding children's fears - the monsters - without giving into them. And when disaster does strike in the form of a hurricane, Kenny copes with a supportive family and a long-term plan. This book comforts with its vision of generational stability and resilience of spirit.
Tree House in a Storm OverviewKenny climbed trees as soon as he could walk, and a few years later, with the help of his little sister Allison, builds a tree house where the two of them rule as king and queen. But their reign promises to be a short one. Located in New Orleans, Kenny and Allisons tree house stands directly in the path of Hurricane Betsy!
This touching tale about the devastation from severe weather events is sure to warm your heart. Learn with Kenny and Allison that even the worst storm can end with a rainbow.

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Bite the Stars Review

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Bite the Stars ReviewCanadian author Eliza Clark's Bite the Stars is a gripping and emotional novel about Grace Larson, the mother of a brutal and violent criminal. Forced into premature labor by the violence of a tornado, Grace finds herself unable to cope with or understand her son Cole, a child who grows up to be as destructive as nature at its worst. As Grace watches her son's trail of destruction, she looks for answers in nature itself. Bite The Stars is recommended to a serious readership as being a poignant, gut-wrenching, compellingly thoughtful and thought-provoking narrative that will not soon be forgotten.Bite the Stars OverviewProduct DescriptionBite the Stars marks the U.S. debut of the gifted Canadian author, Eliza Clark. Written with cinematic flair and luminous intensity, Bite the Stars opens with a tornado that whips into motion the whirlwind events of a young woman's life.Grace Larson tells the gripping story of the storm that caused her to go into labor prematurely and give birth to Cole, who becomes as menacing and dangerous as the force of nature out of which he was born.While her son is on the run from the law, ravaging his own path of wild destruction, Grace reads books and studies facts of nature, the chemistry of fireflies, blazing trails of dying comets, ultraviolet visions of butterflies, looking for clues to her son's nature. She searches her memory for events in their past to figure out why Cole is the way he is, where nurture ends and nature rules. Bite the Stars is a spellbinding novel told from the eye of the storm.In a gripping voice, Grace Larson dramatically recounts the tornado that destroyed her church on Palm Sunday, killing nineteen people and causing her to go into labor and give birth to a son. As Cole grows up, it becomes clear that he is just as dangerous and destructive as the storm he was born out of, a dark force of nature himself. With a mother's fierce love and profound guilt, Grace tries to see him as the man he is, and herself as the woman she could yet become.From Publishers WeeklyA mother traces her son's descent into violence and addiction in Canadian novelist Clark's quietly effective American debut, which begins somewhat melodramatically with the birth of Cole James Larson in the midst of a Tennessee tornado. Cole's mother, Grace, who provides the first-person narration, takes the tornado as an omen of the boy's problematic future, but the reality is that the absence of his father and Grace's decision to have her sister raise the boy (so that Grace can work to support them) have a far more profound impact on his life. Cole turns to petty arson to get the attention of his father, a married fireman named Jackson, and he terrorizes his schoolmates so much that the local mothers lecture Grace about her deficient parenting skills. Sliding ever further into delinquency as he grows up, Cole acquires a sexy, wild girlfriend, starts using heroin and turns to violent crime. Clark deftly captures Grace's panicky sense of helplessness when Cole's behavior first turns troubling, and her tone is unflinching throughout, even when Cole kills a cop and ends up facing the death penalty. Several elements of Cole's downfall border on cliche, and Grace's narration can be cloyingly folksy or trite ("Ellen was older than me by nearly four years, though seemed to me sometimes she had the wisdom of the ages"). Still, the unusual, well-observed maternal perspective on a young man's decline and the book's sympathetic look at the hard choices faced by single mothers may win Clark a U.S. audience.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Clifford And The Big Storm (Clifford 8x8) Review

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Clifford And The Big Storm (Clifford 8x8) ReviewThis is a good classic Clifford book. My 2 1/2 year old knows it by heart. I could be little scary to children who are afraid of storms. Emily and her grandma have to go to a shelter - it might make kids worry too much over an oncoming storm.Clifford And The Big Storm (Clifford 8x8) OverviewThe most popular big, red, lovable dog that ever was! Clifford books have sold millions of copies in nearly half a century - and his series airing on PBS Kids TV has been enormously popular.

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Overboard: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival Review

Overboard: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
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Overboard: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival ReviewThe misery, sea sickness, cold, terror and fight to survive offshore sailors sometimes experience is captured in this book about this 45' boat sailing to Bermuda from Connecticut in early May, 2005. The 65 year old captain had made 48 round trips to Bermuda and he and the boat could not be more experienced. The captain even taught offshore sailing! He and his first mate had made many passages together and on this trip took 3 people looking to increase their offshore experience. Did they ever! The boat got into the storm of their lives that sank or damaged several other boats. They were half way to Bermuda when the storm hit, well out of Coast Guard helo range. Will the boat sink? Will they all survive or will any survive?
Having raced to Bermuda three times I can identify with this captain and crew, and could not put the book down. It is an extremely will written true suspense and survival story. For serious sailors there are many lessons to be learned or relearned from the fight for survival they experienced.Overboard: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival Overview

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Rumble, Boom (Amazing Science: Weather) Review

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Rumble, Boom (Amazing Science: Weather) ReviewI got this book for my 4 year old who has developed a fear of thunder, thinking that if he understood what makes thunder, he won't be scared anymore. This book does not accomplish that goal. While the pictures are entertaining and grab your attention, the book is extremely boring and definitely not suited to young kids. Also, early in the book there is a glaring mistake. The word "your" is used instead of the word "you." How does a book get published with such a mistake in it?Rumble, Boom (Amazing Science: Weather) OverviewThis is no regular rainstorm. After the lightning, sounds rumble and boom. It's a thunderstorm! Learn more about the giant flashes of light and what makes thunder crashin this book about a building thunderstorm.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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