From raucous stormy seas to a welcomingly vivid rainbow, weather's
most exciting moments come to brilliant life in this fantastic new
pop-up book.
In her hugely successful books Creatures of the Deep and What's in
the Egg, as well as her enormously popular series of greeting cards for
the Museum of Modern Art, Maike Biederstaedt has established herself as
one of the preeminent paper artists working today. Now Biederstaedt
takes book engineering to new heights as she immerses readers in five
electrifying weather scenarios. As each spread unfolds, a meticulously
designed landscape emerges--a freighter balances like a nutshell between
high waves in the sea; a tornado takes terrifying aim at a truck trying
to outrun it; a rain-spewing storm cloud towers like a skyscraper over a
farm house. Nature's delicate beauty emerges in the intricate shapes of
a snowflake and in the luminous arc of a rainbow. Each page features an
informative description of its weather event and the book closes with
sobering commentary on the effects of climate change. A wondrous
introduction to weather for budding climatologists, this is also an
artistic tour de force that collectors will treasure.