Full name: The Secret Life of a Snowflake: An Up-Close Look at the Art and Science of Snowflakes

Author: Kenneth Libbrecht Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Children, Picture books Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780760336762 0760336768

Before a snowflake melts on your tongue, it makes an epic journey. This is the beautiful, full-color story of that journey, step by step, from a single snowflake's creation in the clouds, through its fall to earth, to its brief and sparkling appearance on a child's mitten. Told by a scientist who knows snowflakes better than almost anyone, the story features his brilliant photographs of real snowflakes, snowflakes forming (in the author's lab), water evaporating, clouds developing, ice crystals, rain, dew, and frost--all the elements of the world and weather that add up, flake by flake, to the white landscape of winter. Aimed at readers from 6 to 12, The Secret Life of a Snowflake gets to the heart of one of nature's most magical phenomena while making the wonder of the snowflake all the more real. Similar books: The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino Snow Crystals by W. A. Bentley Grand Canyon by Jason Chin Baby Loves Quarks! by Ruth Spiro From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons Why Do Leaves Change Color? by Betsy Maestro General Relativity for Babies by Chris Ferrie How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan Ocean Sunlight by Molly Bang Let's Go Rock Collecting by Roma Gans Millions to Measure by David M. Schwartz Sunshine Makes the Seasons by Franklyn M. Branley The Planets in Our Solar System by Franklyn M. Branley Green City by Allan Drummond Snowflakes in Photographs by W. A. Bentley Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston Moonshot by Brian Floca From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Heiligman