Rising Waters: A Book about Floods

by Rick Thomas, Denise Shea (Illustrator)

Overview

Describes the causes and the effects of flooding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781404818460
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2005
Series:	Amazing Science: Weather
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Lexile:	IG670L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

Table of Contents

Snowmelt — Spring rains — Flash floods — Rising rivers — Sandbagging — When dams break — Rescue! — Recovery — Surviving a flood — Extreme storm extras.

Editorial Reviews

In these additions to the Amazing Science series, author Rick Thomas explains weather to young elementary students in an inviting and informative manner. Each brightly illustrated book of approximately 20 pages explains a weather phenomenon and its causes. Written in a way that will entice children to want to learn more, this book helps them begin their journey on the road to solving many meteorological mysteries! Whether you live in a cold climate or not, this book on blizzards and cold weather is fascinating. Great descriptions of severe winter storms are complemented by sensible safety information. A website is included that will help students link to useful sites about blizzards and winter weather. Accurate science content is presented in a no-nonsense manner through the guidance of Daniel Dix, a senior meteorologist at the Weather Channel. The conclusion of the book features sections devoted to surviving severe weather safely, interesting facts about weather phenomena, a glossary, Internet and print bibliographies, and an index.

NSTA Recommends

Gr 1-4-The most useful part of these titles is the list of safety rules that appears at the end. Unfortunately, the texts are confusing and information is sometimes missing between sentences. For example, Storm states, "The water rises into the air as vapor," and the next sentence says, "Rain clouds quickly become tropical thunderstorms." Children may not realize that the rising vapor forms clouds. Rising Waters, which discusses the formation of floods and the damage floods produce, is the clearest of the trio. The most confusing entry is Twisters, which discusses updrafts, downdrafts, and thunderstorms in a jumble as twisty as a tornado. The vocabulary in each book is simple, and the print is fairly large, with only several sentences to a page. However, youngsters usually prefer photos and may not be satisfied with the digitally produced illustrations, although the shapes are bold and the colors are bright. The specified Web site acts as a search engine to appropriate links. Melvin and Gilda Berger's Do Tornadoes Really Twist? (Scholastic, 2000) discusses hurricanes and tornadoes in a better-organized, question-and-answer format and gives a great deal of information using easy vocabulary.-Lynda Ritterman, Atco Elementary School, Waterford, NJ Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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