Cloudspotting For Beginners
Published on 4. July 2024
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-0-241-63254-3 (ISBN)
Description
SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHILDREN'S WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
An introduction to the wondrous world of clouds, by the internationally bestselling founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and a prize-winning children's book author and illustrator
Have you ever watched a cloud being born?
Clouds come in all manner of shapes and sizes, from low-lying Stratus to high-flying Cirrus via roll clouds, banner clouds and tornados. This beautifully illustrated guide reveals the facts, secrets and stories of all the major cloud types, and how they shape the weather around them. We learn their fancy Latin names, explore the parts of the sky where they like to hang out, marvel at the ways they play with sunlight - and even visit them on other planets, where they are sometimes made of acid.
Cloudspotting for Beginners will inspire curious minds with a lifelong sense of meteorological wonder.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHILDREN'S WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
An introduction to the wondrous world of clouds, by the internationally bestselling founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and a prize-winning children's book author and illustrator
Have you ever watched a cloud being born?
Clouds come in all manner of shapes and sizes, from low-lying Stratus to high-flying Cirrus via roll clouds, banner clouds and tornados. This beautifully illustrated guide reveals the facts, secrets and stories of all the major cloud types, and how they shape the weather around them. We learn their fancy Latin names, explore the parts of the sky where they like to hang out, marvel at the ways they play with sunlight - and even visit them on other planets, where they are sometimes made of acid.
Cloudspotting for Beginners will inspire curious minds with a lifelong sense of meteorological wonder.
Reviews / Votes
I adored Cloudspotting for Beginners, so artfully illustrated by William Grill that reading it feels akin to floating through clouds -- Imogen Carter, Best Books of 2024 * Guardian * This is a beautiful book. Aimed principally at upper primary school children, it has been so well conceived and produced that it offers much for the more mature reader also . . . Pretor-Pinney and Grill have recognised the fundamental and key aspects of observing clouds - that their aesthetic beauty is the prime motivating factor in enthusing our interest towards them, and that their modification, or continual evolution, is best expressed in an art form lying somewhere between expressionism and impressionism, and which cannot largely be achieved using still photography . . . I know of no better book on offer to enthuse our youngest generation towards an interest in observation of the natural world and the skies, and which encourages us to view the hemisphere as the equivalent of a tableau, rather than as a digital screen -- Edward Graham * Weather </i>magazine *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 8 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 272 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
663 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-63254-3 (9780241632543)
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney is founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, which has more than 60,000 members in 120 countries. He is the author of the internationally bestselling Cloudspotter's Guide and Cloud Collector's Handbook. His third book, The Wavewatcher's Companion, won the prestigious Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Gavin is a TED Global speaker with over 1.2 million views. He has presented television documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 and is a Visiting Fellow at the Meteorology Department of Reading University and winner of the Royal Meteorological Society's Michael Hunt award. William Grill is a Bristol-based illustrator whose main interest lies in narrative illustration and publishing. He draws most of his inspiration from the natural world, and enjoys working in coloured pencils and occasionally printmaking processes like lino and lithography. His first book, Shackleton's Journey, won the 2015 Kate Greenaway award and has been translated into over fourteen languages, and his second book, The Wolves of Currumpaw, won the 2016 Bologna Ragazzi Prize for Non-fiction.