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What Makes a Blizzard?

What Makes a Blizzard?

by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld and Maddie Frost
Paperback
Age range: + years old Publication Date: 18/12/2017

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Read and find out about blizzards in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

All blizzards are snowstorms, but not all snowstorms are blizzards. What is the difference? How much snow falls during a blizzard? How fast are the winds? How cold does it get during a blizzard? Read and find out!

What Makes a Blizzard comes chock-full of visual aids like charts, sidebars, and hands-on activities--including how to keep a winter weather journal and how to observe what a snowflake really looks like.

This is a clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. It's a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:

    hands-on and visualacclaimed and trustedgreat for classrooms

Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:

    Entertain and educate at the same timeHave appealing, child-centered topicsDevelopmentally appropriate for emerging readersFocused; answering questions instead of using survey approachEmploy engaging picture book quality illustrationsUse simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skillsFeature hands-on activities to engage young scientistsMeet national science education standardsWritten/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the fieldOver 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests

Books in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.

ISBN:
9780062484727
9780062484727
Category:
Natural history (Childrens/Teenage)
Age range:
+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-12-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
203x255x4mm
Weight:
0.16kg
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld is the award-winning author of more than seventy books for children.

When she is not reading, researching, writing or editing she loves to spend her free time exploring, doing fieldwork and preparing and curating fossils for her local natural history museums. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Maddie Frost

Maddie Frost creates her illustrations by making handmade textured and patterned swatches with materials like watercolour paint, crayon, pencils, and even kitchen spices! She scans the swatches into Photoshop and digitally cuts the shapes she needs to make something.

Her final images can consist of anywhere from fifty to five hundred pieces that are all layered together. Maddie lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, with her husband.

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