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What Makes a Blizzard?: An Illustrated Science Book About Winter Storms for Kids (Ages 4-8) (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) - Softcover

Buch 82 von 93: Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2

Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner

 
9780062484727: What Makes a Blizzard?: An Illustrated Science Book About Winter Storms for Kids (Ages 4-8) (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0062484729 ISBN 13: 9780062484727
Verlag: HarperCollins, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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 visual
  • acclaimed and trusted
  • great for classrooms

Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:

  • Entertain and educate at the same time
  • Have appealing, child-centered topics
  • Developmentally appropriate for emerging readers
  • Focused; answering questions instead of using survey approach
  • Employ engaging picture book quality illustrations
  • Use simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skills
  • Feature hands-on activities to engage young scientists
  • Meet national science education standards
  • Written/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the field
  • Over 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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld is the award-winning author of more than ninety books for children. She has written several books in the Let’s Read And Find Out Science series, including: WHAT LIVES IN A SHELL?, an NSTA/CBC “Outstanding Science Trade Book” and winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s “Best Children’s Book” award; WHAT IS THE WORLD MADE OF?, a Children’s Book of the Month Club Main Selection; WHAT’S ALIVE?, also named an AAAS “Best Children’s Book”; HOW MOUNTAINS ARE MADE, an NSTA/CBC “Outstanding Science Trade Book,” DINOSAUR TRACKS, "a great choice for even the most discriminating dinophiles" (School Library Journal); and DINOSAURS BIG AND SMALL, winner of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio “Best Book Award”

Kathleen was a children’s book editor for over ten years before becoming a full-time writer. 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, CA.



Maddie Frost is the author and illustrator of Chip Plays Grown-Up, her first I Can Read Comic, which introduces Chip, an engaging young penguin. She’s also the creator of the Wombats! graphic novels, Shared Space, Capybara Is Friends with Everyone, Let’s Draw Fun Animals, and Iguana Be a Dragon and the illustrator of Shine Like a Unicorn and many other books. Maddie lives in Massachusetts with her family.

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Verlag
HarperCollins
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0062484729
ISBN 13 
9780062484727
Einband
Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Frost Maddie
Anzahl der Seiten
40
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