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"Young children are naturally curious about the world around them. It Snows offers answers to their most compelling questions about winter weather. Age-appropriate explanations and appealing photos encourage readers to continue their quest for knowledge. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words"--Provided by publisher.

We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth's atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer - 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet, within this fragile margin lies a magnificent realm - at once gorgeous, terrifying, capricious, and elusive. With his keen eye for identifying and uniting seemingly unrelated events, Chris Dewdney reveals to us the invisible...

"Explores the causes of everyday weather phenomena, including how clouds form, why tornadoes twist, and how the sun helps life grow" --From publisher description.

Explores the atmospheric layers that wrap around Earth, and explains how each layer has a different effect on the way we live on Earth.

Discusses the importance and causes of various kinds of weather, how it can change and be predicted, and how weather is different in different places.

Text, illustrations, and photographs of a boy looking out the window introduce different kinds of weather as it changes from day to day.

An introduction to the science behind thunder and lightning.

"The weather is different every day. Sometimes the sky is blue and the sun is shining; sometimes the sky is filled with clouds and its raining. And sometimes there is so much wind, you can hardly walk. In winter, when soft snowflakes fall from gray skies, you can make a snowman! Weather can be fun, but it can also be dangerous, like when theres a tornado. In this book, youll find out more about the beautiful, exciting, and dangerous sides of the weather."--Page...