The moon is rising
behind the clouds.
Can you see it gleaming
on the choppy water?
Soon a radiant moon
and a sprinkling of
stars light up the land."
Full color spreads with explanatory text show weather from a variety of contexts and viewpoints. The author's compact text offers all that is needed to support the artwork presented, describing scientific phenomena for four types of weather.
Narration includes scientific facts and provides encouragement for readers to consider various aspects of weather and their memories of such days. There are four sections, describing familiar weather events - sun, rain, ice and snow, and extreme weather - that we have all experienced at one time or another. Weather is the focus here, although people and animals are often seen in the distance. Brief mention is made of human responsibility for our planet's growing warmth that is resulting in extreme weather.
"Extreme weather feels like someone turned up the volume on our regular weather, creating scorching heat waves, gale-force gusts, and torrential downpours. Sometimes, many kinds of weather happen at once, causing tremendous confusion.
Climate change, which occurs as human activity warms the planet at an unnaturally fast pace, means extreme weather events are becoming more frequent."
A glossary and an author’s note acknowledging several classical landscape painters are included as backmatter.
This is a lovely and contemplative look at what tends to be the focus for many of our days.
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