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Feel the wind

Explains what causes wind and how it affects our environment. Includes instructions for making a weathervane.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dorros, Arthur
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Crowell, 1989.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Let's-read-and-find-out science.
Subjects:	Winds > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Explains what causes wind and how it affects our environment. Includes instructions for making a weathervane.
Physical Description:	32 p. : col. ill. ; 19 x 23 cm.
Audience:	Lexile: 600.
ISBN:	0690047398 : 9780690047394 069004741X (lib. bdg.) : 9780690047417 (lib. bdg.) 9780064450959 (pbk.)
Author Notes:	Arthur Dorros, an author and occasional illustrator, was born in Washington, D.C. on May 19, 1950. He attended and graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a B.A. degree in 1972. He received his postgraduate teaching certification from Pacific Oaks College in 1979. He has worked odd jobs in his youth such as: builder, carpenter, drafter and photographer. He was a teacher for both elementary and junior high. He was the artist in residence for more than a dozen New York public schools while running programs in creative writing and bookmaking. Some of his children's books are written in both English and Spanish. He also writes books that deal with science and nature. Ant Cities and Feel the Wind were named Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children by the National Science Teachers Association/Children's Book Council and A Tree is Growing was named an Orbis Pictus Honor Book. He has received the Reading Rainbow Review book selections award for three of his books - Alligator Shoes, Ant Cities and Abuela. (Bowker Author Biography)