The Man Who Named the Clouds
Grade 2-4–Readers will learn quite a bit about the 10 classifications of clouds from this picture-book biography of 18th-century English meteorologist Luke Howard. Historical portraits and reproductions of his original painted cloud studies are mixed in with Billin-Frye's attractive ink-and-watercolor cartoons. The text also contains entries in a weather journal created by a present-day student doing a science project, which interrupts the narrative flow of the biography and cloud information. Weather jokes at the bottom of the entries are distracting and seem out of place. Overall, though, this book can be used to supplement materials on cloud classification or to introduce a little-known scientist.–Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VACopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.