| Tornadoes! |  | Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Holiday House
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 84,642
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 9.5 x 0.2
ISBN: 0823422747
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.553
EAN: 9780823422746
ASIN: 0823422747
Publication Date: January 4, 2010
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Product Description
Tornadoes are funnel-shaped clouds that can cause massive destruction on the ground. Their winds can swirl faster than 260 miles per hour! Using her acclaimed combination of clear text and detailed illustrations, Gibbons explains how tornadoes form, the scale used for classifying them, and what to do in case one should be near you.
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Tornadoes by Gail Gibbons April 27, 2009
G. S. Pait
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent way to show the true force of tornadoes.Every classroom should have this book. My grandchildren enjoy this book and the beautiful pictures.Thank you, Gail Gibbons ,for a great book . G.S.P.
An excellent, informative picturebook May 18, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Tornadoes! is a hardcover picturebook that teaches young readers all about tornadoes - swirling funnel-shaped clouds spun by violent winds, that can cause extreme destruction when they connect with the ground. Yet most tornadoes dissipate in less than ten minutes. Tornadoes! tells young people how tornadoes come to be, how they are classified, and perhaps most important, what to do when one learns a tornado is approaching. "If you are in a car, get out immediately! Try to find a low spot, such as a ditch, to lie in. Lie flat on your stomach and cover your head with your hands." An excellent, informative picturebook with simple color illustrations, highly recommended for public library children's collections.
This simple, but exquisitely researched book is an excellent resource for young people to learn about tornadoes! November 8, 2009
D. Fowler (Vermont)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When cumulonimbus storm clouds gather, the lightning starts and rain or hail begin to fall you might want to be prepared just in case a tornado forms. Tornado "comes from the Spanish word tronada, meaning `thunderstorm.'" The interchange between rising warm, humid air and the cooler air in the clouds creates condensation which begins to fall down to Earth. With just the right combination a funnel cloud, or tornado can be formed. Time to take cover! If you think that there is one particular time of the year that your area experiences tornadoes you might have to rethink your theory as the author states that "tornadoes may occur at any time of the year if the weather conditions are right."
Historically there have been some whopper tornadoes, but until 1971 there was no scale with which to measure them. T. Theodore Fujita created the "Fujita Tornado Scale rating tornadoes on a scale from F0 to F5." Although it is not reasonable or possible to rank wind speeds during a tornado, the speeds can be estimated. In this exciting book you will learn about each kind of tornado, their wind speeds and the kind of damage they can create. If you take a close look at the illustrations, which span two pages for each tornado, you can readily see the destructive force of each one. You'll get to take a look at Tornado Alley, check out a couple of very destructive tornadoes, learn about meteorologists and the National Weather Service and, most important of all, learn "what to do when a tornado approaches."
This simple, but exquisitely researched book is an excellent resource for young people to learn about tornadoes. The text and the artwork combine to draw the reader through the book in an easy, nonthreatening manner. This is the perfect book for the reluctant reader because it is exciting and will pull him or her through a tornado learning experience with ease. I read this book a couple of times and my favorite part was reading about what each tornado does based on the Fujita Tornado Scale and then pore over the illustrations looking for the damage. Every child should read this book weather (or is it whether?) or not they live in tornado country!
Caught 4-year old's interest July 15, 2010
Margaret Christy (FL)
My grandsons were mesmerized by the pictures in this book. Much of the information is beyond their comprehension but an introduction to tornadoes and hurricanes is necessary for those of us living in Florida.
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