The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Locker, Thomas

Cloud Dance

32 pp. | Harcourt/Silver Whistle | September, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-15-202231-7 $$16.00

(3) K-3 Locker's painterly style is particularly suited to a picture book about clouds. On each spread, an oil painting shows an expanse of sky, while a brief, poetic text describes the clouds in different seasons or at different times of day: "Soft, rosy spring clouds / flow / in the dawn light. / Veils of mist / rise / in warm sunlight." Factual information about the types of clouds and the way they are formed concludes the attractive volume.

Reviewer: Anne St. John