Weather Child

We experience different sights, activities, and weather each season. Books in this series introduce and label the unique sights of each season, helping listeners learn to read while also learning about the four seasons. Tightly controlled vocabulary and repetitive text patterns create an engaging and supportive listening experience.

Many animals take cover when it rains. They like to stay warm and dry too!

Weather is all around us. What is the weather like where you live? Weather Report introduces early book explorers to weather conditions while helping them develop literacy skills.

Filled with real accounts of the devastating power of hurricanes, this audiobook takes listeners into the eye of the storm - where it may be calm, clear, and sunny, but surrounding you on all sides are black clouds and rampaging winds. Here, you'll come face-to-face with some of the greatest hurricanes in history through firsthand accounts from people who survived these destructive storms. You'll see the frightful sights and hear the roaring sounds these witnesses experienced during their harrowing ordeals.

How do you know that spring is finally coming? The geese, of course! All you have to do is look for the V-shape in the sky and listen for all that honking as they migrate back from Canada!

January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.

Feel that springtime breeze? Lyrical, rhyming text takes young listeners on a journey with adorable animals frolicking in the springtime wind.

The wind is moving air! When warm air rises through the atmosphere, cool air flows in to take its place, creating wind! Did you know that wind power can produce electricity? Tall machines called wind turbines are solar-powered and becoming the fastest-growing renewable source of energy–they burn no fuel and cause no pollution. Turbines can be found on many wind farms, especially in Europe!

The wind moves air. The heat from the sun warms the earth’s surface, warming the air above it. Warm air is lighter than cold air, so the warm air floats up to the sky! Why are some places windier than others? Learn what happens on a sandy beach when the air over the beach rises. Does the air become hot? Can you see hot air? Try the hot air experiment to find out how to see hot air rise!

Do you know what clouds are made of—they are made up of water particles! Learn about weather science, the characteristics of clouds, and how clouds recycle water. What are the effects on weather and different organisms in the world? Understand the science of precipitation—how clouds create rain, snow, and hail!

What does spring look like in different regions of the United States? Depending on where you live, you could have different weather from someone across the country—even during the same season! See how different spring can look as Jade, Rowan, Lacey, and Isaac all get to enjoy a spring day from their backyards.

Once there were two cocks, one on a dunghill and one on the roof, both of them conceited; but which of the two did the most? Tell us what you think - we'll keep our own opinion, anyway. The chicken yard was separated by a board fence from another yard, where there lay a manure heap, and on this grew a great cucumber, which was fully aware of being a forcing-bed plant.

Yo is happy his mother and father are staying home with him on this winter day. It’s a snow holiday at Yo’s house! The streets are blocked with snow from a winter storm. What would you do on a family snow holiday? Yo builds a snowman with his father that looks like their dog, Lips. They use snow to make his body and paws. Guess what Yo’s mother wants to do next on their snow holiday?

Why should you care about climate change? Weather affects your everyday life and climate change can have major impacts. Discover how scientists study climate change, what current research shows, and what you can do to reverse its effects.

Describes some animals that survive extremely cold temperatures and the different ways that these animals stay warm. Some of the animals shown include the tundra bumblebee, the Alaskan blackfish, the polar bear, and the emperor penguin.

Weather and Warfare dramatically retraces the meteorological forces during battlefield engagements that doomed or saved civilizations. In 1588 more than half of the Spanish Armada, on its way around northern Britain, was destroyed by storms in retreat back to Spain. Napoleon's attack on Russia was stopped cold by winter weather, as was Hitler's siege of Leningrad. In WWI, it was all-quiet on the western front during mud season.

On January 12, 1888, a surprise blizzard broke out in the middle of the day across the Midwest. In its path, hundreds of children and teachers found themselves stranded inside schoolhouses with no food, no heat, and very few options. Days passed, and over 235 people died as result of the harsh snow of the Schoolhouse Blizzard, but many were able to survive thanks to the bravery of others in their communities. Learn all about the disastrous weather conditions and the people who were affected by it in this book for young listeners.

What can you do in the winter? Make a snow hill, snowball, snow fort, snow person, and snow angel. Pair this nonfiction title with its companion fiction book, Snow Clothes.

Mira Storm Weather often wondered why people thought she was strange. She always thought she lived an ordinary life. However, events at Halloween would prove to Mira just how extraordinary her life could be. She had inherited magical powers. Now, Mira must gain knowledge and courage to fight the evil one in her village and find her true destiny as a witch.

Winter is the time for bundling up, playing in the snow with a new snowman friend. And catching snowflakes on your tongue before they disappear as Wonderful Winter fades into Spring.