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Bulletin for the Center... - 06/01/2013 In this wordless picture book, a family in a red pickup truck heads home through farm country at the leading edge of a storm front. Animals scurry into their burrows for shelter just as lightning downs a power line and the family makes a quick stop to unload hay bales with a neighbor. With the wind and rain at their backs, the family hits the road, but an overheated engine forces them into another neighbor’s shed for quick repair work. The next leg of their trek is cut short by blackening skies and howling wind, and they shelter beneath the arch of a stone underpass, while a twister rips through the area and demolishes a farmhouse. Yet another neighbor is in need of help, and the last of their hay bales serve as tables and benches for the crew of volunteers who show up to stabilize the fresh wreckage. After their six-hour trip, indicated by the time given at the bottom of each page, the family finally arrives home under a sky so blue and clear that it’s hard to believe nature had just caused such a destructive ruckus. This is a tightly focused examination of Man facing off with Nature, and Geisert’s signature deployment of minutiae is strictly in the service of documenting the mind-boggling flurry of activity that accompanies a typical Midwestern weather event (his signature pigs, along with a host of other animals, appear as they hunker down before the storm). Science teachers with a little imagination, a doc cam, and a projector can mount an applause-worthy kick-off for a meteorology unit. EB - Copyright 2013 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

School Library Journal - 04/20/2013 PreS-Gr 5—Thunderstorm raises talking about the weather to an art form. Each generously sized spread is an exquisite etching that crackles with the power of a Midwestern storm. The text merely notes the time while the illustrations bestow the breathtaking experience of being everywhere at once as the landscape is dramatically transformed. Readers follow as the farmer's family pulls in bales of hay, with the cows looking up as lightning snaps a power line. Owls scatter as a twister tears apart the tree where they are nesting. Dense clouds form overhead as the family grabs the laundry from the line. In a climactic illustration, roofs, doors, fences, and trees hurl and spin in the cyclonic winds. After six hours, the storm has passed, leaving the locals to pick up the pieces-many, many pieces. Those who experience this astonishing book will have greater respect-awe, even-for thunderstorms and for those whose lives are so intensely affected by these phenomena.—Susan Weitz, formerly at Spencer-Van Etten School District, Spencer, NY - Copyright 2013 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

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