| View Larger Image | Hurricane & Tornado (DK Eyewitness Books) | Hardcoverby Jack Challoner (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | DK CHILDREN | | Page Count: | 72 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 09, 2004 | | Sales Rank: | 22,381nd |
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FEATURES | - ISBN13: 9780756606909
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Product Description
New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text! Here is a dramatic and compelling guide to nature's most dangerous and destructive forces. Stunning full-color photographs, models and illustrations offer a unique "eyewitness" view of catastrophic weather conditions. See into the eye of a spiraling cyclone, hailstones the size of tennis balls, a spectacular lightning ball, the devastating effects of the El Nino phenomenon, and how a gentle mountain stream can become a raging torrent within a few minutes. Learn the techniques developed through the centuries to forecast weather, about the chicken that was stripped of its feathers by a tornado, about Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod, and why human activity can cause weather patterns to change. Discover what causes giant waves capable of engulfing entire cities, the disastrous consequences of drought, how plants and animals have adapted to withstand extreme conditions, the weather patterns beyond Earth, and much, much more. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 4 reviews)
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Extreme Weather by R. S. Litman (Pennsylvania USA)  5 Stars
March 16, 2007
I am an adult but have read about 35-40 DK Eyewitness books in the past 15 months. I'm catching up with a lot of the science I never learned in school, and the illustrations and simple style that is easy for young readers to understand while not talking down to adults like me are invaluable in building my knowledge of these subject areas.
I have a perverse interest in tornadoes, so I looked forward to reading this book. However, I think a better title for this book would have been "Extreme Weather". Of the 60-some pages of material in this book, only 4 each are devoted to the subjects of hurricanes and tornadoes. The remainder of the book is devoted to weather basics (also covered excellently in the book in this series called "Weather") and other severe and extreme weather conditions.
Despite this somewhat misleading title, I highly recommend this book and all of the DK Eyewitness books that I've read. A somewhat newer book in the series, "Natural Disasters", covers some of the same material plus non-weather-related calamities such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and disease epidemics. "Natural Disasters" was published recently enough to include coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004.
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Great book for young weather enthusiast! by J. Coe (Connecticut) 5 Stars
January 15, 2007
My twins, age 4 1/2, love this book. Interesting history of weather phenomena, and some really great pictures!
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SO EXCITING 5 Stars
July 27, 2005
I"M INTERESTED ABOUT HRRICANES AND TORNADOES TOO
THIS DK BOOK WAS JUST SO EXCITING
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I Love Eyewitness Books! I want them in Spanish too! by Lynn Ellingwood (Webster, NY United States) 5 Stars
November 30, 2004
This is a great addition to the Eyewitness Series. Kids will go nuts over all the information on tornados and hurricanes. It's right up disaster alley.
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