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64 pp.
| Simon
| July, 2011
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4424-3274-1$16.99
(4)
4-6
Insiders series.
Boldly illustrated with computer-assisted art and full of information in paragraphs, sidebars, charts, and captions, this book introduces weather and its extreme forms (e.g., supercell thunderstorms), then gives specific examples of weather-caused disasters, such as Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. Mostly declarative sentences, sometimes in very small type, solidly explain the excited headings ("Weather Goes Wild"). Glos., ind.