Weather (Nerdy Babies Series)

by Emmy Kastner, Emmy Kastner (Illustrator)

Overview

Nerdy Babies is a series that will ignite curiosity in even the youngest readers and encourage them to ask questions and explore the world around them.

In Nerdy Babies: Weather, follow our intrepid babies into the eye of the storm. Experience sunshine, wind, rain, and other weather patterns. Plus, learn about how we predict the weather in this simple text written in question and answer format.

With bright artwork by Emmy Kastner, Nerdy Babies is a series that the very littlest nerds will want to return to again and again.

Stay curious. There’s more to learn about everything!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250312310
Publisher:	Roaring Brook Press
Publication date:	05/05/2020
Series:	Nerdy Babies Series , #4
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 9.37(h) x 0.41(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Emmy Kastner is a former classroom teacher and the co-founder of Read and Write Kalamazoo (RAWK), a nonprofit devoted to cultivating reading and writing for youth pre-K through high school. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband and three young kids. Visit her at emmykmakes.com

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Nerdy Babies series
"Kastner provides a cheerful, appealing introduction to science topics for young audiences. Her approach is simple, straightforward, and age-appropriate, making it easy for children to digest concepts that could otherwise be confusing or overly complicated. The illustrations are bright, colorful, and eye-catching, providing details and additional facts that eager and curious kids will enjoy spotting as they read." - School Library Journal

"Using bright, bold colors and simple lines and dots, Kastner gives each planet personality and facial features [in Nerdy Babies: Space]." - Kirkus

From the Publisher

2020-02-09
A quartet of crawlers in eyeglasses and onesies gets the lowdown on weather.

Following up Space and Ocean (both 2019) in the Nerdy Babies series, Kastner breezes through a broad range of often complex meteorological topics, from rain, snow, and hail (“Precipitation!”) to select types of clouds, thunder and lightning, and the difference between “weather” and “climate.” How much of this the multiracial set of precocious toddlers on view (“The wind has socks?” asks one. “Kind of!” answers another) or the actual rug rats they supposedly represent will absorb is questionable. However, putting the information out there does at least make it available to caregivers, and the author’s repeated appeals to be, and stay, curious about the world is a worthy message for everyone. In a companion volume, Rocks, she makes the same plea while chipping away at the three types of rocks, geological formations, the rock cycle, and (without actually using the term, which is odd in a discourse featuring terms like “metamorphic” and “stalagmite”) plate tectonics. The “nerd” glasses are a cute, if stereotypical, conceit, but the babies are winningly expressive, and aside from a strangely drab rainbow in Weather, the illustrations add washes of bright color. Both titles are available in board editions, enabling caregivers to share them with an audience even less likely to understand them.

Likely to miss its intended audience—but may find another. (Informational picture book. 2-6)

Kirkus Reviews