What Makes A Blizzard?

Description

In 1888, a blizzard came from Canada and swept across eight American states. Schoolchildren went to school one unseasonably warm winter day and found themselves trapped in their classrooms by high snow levels and strong gusts of wind. From this gripping beginning, readers learn what blizzards are, and what conditions cause them. 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! This Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out comes chock-full of visual aids like charts, sidebars, and hands-on activities.

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld is the award-winning author of more than sixty books, including How Mountains Are Made, What Is the World Made Of?, What's Alive?, and What Lives in a Shell? When she's not reading, researching, writing, or editing, Kathleen loves to spend her free time exploring, doing fieldwork, and preparing fossils in the laboratory for her local natural history museums. She lives in Berkeley, CA. 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.

A handsome addition to the dependable Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. -- Booklist