When you stop to think about it, weather is incredible: it's whimsical,
varied, ever-present, sometimes destructive and other times, beautiful.
This immersive illustrated nonfiction book is an invitation for readers
to ponder weather and approach it with a newfound sense of
understanding, awe, and wonder.
Through four chapters--sun, rain, ice and snow, and extreme
weather--this book explores different weather phenomena, from rainbows
and sunsets to clouds, frost, and rainstorms. Moments of distress and
destruction are offset by the calm after a storm or the peaceful feeling
of a blanket of fresh snow.
Evocative paintings convey the sheer power of weather, while lyrical
text captures the richness of our natural environment. The book takes an
inspiring tone rather than an exhaustive, factual one. The book
explicitly makes the links between extreme weather, climate change, and
human activity, and poses questions often, inviting young readers to
observe and inquire about their own environment or to imagine other
ones.