Customer Reviews

Tornadoes

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is a good book to explain tornadoes to your early elementary age children. There are good explanations of how tornadoes form, the "typical" tornado, where they most commonly occur, the classification of tornadoes, warning signs, safety measures, etc. Also, there are a few examples of specific tornadoes given. And, there are some nice photos. This is a good book to cover this topic.

As for why I rated it a 4-star instead of 5, the book just lacked that "wow factor" for me that makes a book go from good to outstanding. It also might have been nice to see a timeline for a specific tornado, or a photo progression of one specific tornado to see how they develop.

Though this book is definitely for older kids, above 1st grade, it has some awesome pictures. The descriptions were very nice and as with most books about tornadoes has great information about what to do and not to do if you are in the path of a tornado.

This book was very interesting. It is filled with lots of facts and great pictures. Seymore Simon is a great writer. If you want to learn about Tornadoes definitly pick up this book. It is a GREAT book.

So dissapointed! My 4-year old loves tornadoes and we have gone through every tornado book our library has. I decided it was time to buy him a couple to keep and went with this since it had decent reviews. Are you kidding me? Ugh. The page set-up makes it difficult to read or even teach from (no paragraph brakes, spacing, etc), and there are more pictures of damage done by tornados and people looking at old computer screens than of actual tornados. If you have a kid who'd like to actually learn something about tornadoes may I recommend:

Tornado Alert (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

It has drawings instead of actual photos, but a much better book.