Floods

Description

People plants and animals all need rain. But the ground can take in only so much. Too much and the land will flood. Farms and cities can be damaged. People must move to dry ground until slowly the water soaks into the earth. Learn about floods what we can do and how to stay safe.

Rachel Werner is the founder of The Little Book Project WI, a bi-annual community arts and nonprofit printmaking collaboration. Her literary writing and craft essays have been published by Off Menu Press, Digging Through The Fat and Voyage YA Literary Journal. A selection of Rachel's recipes are also included in Wisconsin Cocktails (UW-Press, 2020)--and her poetry in the anthology "Hope Is The Thing: Wisconsinites On Hope and Resilience in the Time of Covid-19" (The Wisconsin Historical Society, 2021).

For readers curious about the past and present of natural disasters, this is a series that looks at the intricacies of different types of wild events. These titles serve as excellent introductions to the current climate crisis, extreme weather, and disaster preparedness. Of course, there is neat information on things like how hurricanes are named and the different types of tornadoes there are, but the lived perspective is incredibly valuable. Readers have the opportunity to look back to Pompeii and Katrina as well as to present conditions like wildfires on the North American west coast. VERDICT Libraries will find these titles are very relevant with applications in the classroom as well as at home.-- "School Library Journal"