Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
With a natural poetic rhythm, the nonfiction picture book Zap! Clap! Boom!: The Story of a Thunderstorm by Laura Purdie Salas and illustrated by Ellie MacKay (Bloomsbury, February 2023) skillfully depicts the development and impact of a thunderstorm. The text takes readers on a journey from a calm day to the formation of clouds and
Although Little Cloud and Lady Wind by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison, illustrated by Sean Qualls (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010), is not a highly instructional book about the water cycle, I certainly cannot ignore a Toni Morrison book when it does even partially relates to the water cycle. In this fairy
When Cloud Became a Cloud by Rob Hodgson (Rise X Penguin Workshop, 2021). With very short chapters and simple-to-read text, Hodgson’s masterpiece about the water cycle manages to teach as well as entertain. It reads like a simple story, and even the illustrations seem friendly and childlike. Yet in his sparse text and deceptively simple
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