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Name: Great Gusts : Winds of the World and the Science Behind Them
Author: Crowder, Melanie
ISBN: [978-1-53622-451-1,1-53622-451-0]

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Great Gusts : Winds of the World and the Science Behind Them

Author: Crowder, Melanie

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Follett Number: 2344BD5
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Mit Kids Press, 2024
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-53622-451-1
ISBN-10: 1-53622-451-0
Dewey: 811
Classifications: Nonfiction

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Includes bibliographical references. Exploring fourteen winds of the world, from Japan's blustery oroshi to Hawai'i's sweet-smelling moani, this dynamic collection of poems reflects the characteristics and sometimes the location of each wind--includes sidebars with scientific facts and meteorological details.

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From Antarctica's biting katabatic gusts to Hawai'i's sweet-smelling moani, discover fourteen winds of the world through poetry, scientific facts, and transporting illustrations. Lift your face to the breeze-- let it bathe your cheeks sift through your hair tease your fingertips. In a dynamic collection of poems, Melanie Crowder and Megan Benedict explore the world's winds, from Italy's swaggering maestro to Libya's fierce ghibli to Canada's howling squamish. The poetic styles used reflect the characteristics and sometimes the location of each wind: Japan's blustery oroshi is celebrated in haiku, for example, while the poem about Britain's helm uses iambs in a nod toward the iambic pentameter of English sonnets. Sidebars relay the science behind how each wind forms, where it blows, and the weather systems it heralds, and the airy art from award-winning illustrator Khoa Le is overlaid with scientifically accurate wind lines that show the path of each gust. More meteorological details can be found in the back matter, which includes explorations of the origin of wind and how winds are named, a world map pinning the winds' locations, a glossary, and books for further reading.

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