Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate
(Science Comics)

Author

Mk Reed

Illustrator

Jonathan Hill

Publication Date

April 16, 2019

Genre / Grade Band

Non-fiction / 4^th − 5^th

Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate (Science Comics)

Paperback

Hardcover

Description

Furious floods, looming landslides, terrifying tornadoes, ferocious forest fires! Is Mother Nature trying to tell us something? As "snowpocalypse" descends once again, one temperamental weatherman is determined to set the record straight on the myths and misconceptions surrounding the elements. What is the difference between weather and climate? How do weather satellites predict the future? Can someone outrun a tornado? Does the rotation of the Earth affect wind currents? And does meteorology have anything to do with meteors? Stormin' Norman Weatherby is gearing up to answer all your wildest questions!

Get ready to explore the depths of the ocean, the farthest reaches of space, and everything in between! These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, Science Comics is for you!

Publication date

April 16, 2019

Classification

Non-fiction

Page Count

ISBN-13

9781626727892

Lexile Measure

Guided Reading Level

Publisher

First Second

Series

Science Comics

BISAC categories

Library of Congress categories

Graphic novels
Cartoons and comics
Nonfiction comics
Weather
Climatology
Educational comics

School Library Journal

Gr 3-6-In this "Science Comics" entry, fictive TV weatherman Stormin' Norman Weatherby schools featherbrained cohost Chase McCloud (and readers) in the essentials of meteorology--from the origins of the term to clouds, fronts, and the water cycle, plus tornados, hurricanes, lightning, and the causes and effects of climate change. Along with being exposed to extreme weather events both real ("Snowpocalypse") and bogus ("Sharknado"), readers will be inundated with easily absorbed information about meteorological gear and tools, blown through a compilation of "wild weather myths" (by consulting meteorologist Alicia Wasula), and pushed into keeping a general disaster plan and kit on hand. In neatly laid out panels, Hill alternates cartoon figures in a TV studio with diagrammatic views of atmospheric elements, molecules in action, and scenes of widespread destruction. VERDICT Readers are sure to be struck--not by lightning (one hopes) but by the scope and drama of the phenomena described in this breezy overview.-John Peters, Children's Literature Consultant, New York

Mk Reed

MK Reed is the writer of Americus, The Cute Girl Network, Palefire, and the Eisner-nominated Science Comics: Dinosaurs. She writes and draws About a Bull, a web-comic adaptation of Irish mythology. MK lives in Portland, Oregon, with her very tall husband.

Jonathan Hill is an Ignatz-nominated cartoonist who lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and cat. He was the artist on Americus and has had work in books from Fantagraphics, Dark Horse, and Roar. His first solo book, Odesssa, was published in 2020. He also teaches comics in the illustration department of the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

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