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Tornadoes!

Newly revised and vetted by weather experts, this informational introduction to tornadoes provides more than 50 tornado facts, including how they form, the scale used for classifying them and the safest places to go in case one should happen near you.

Main Author: Gibbons, Gail (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Holiday House, [2024]
Edition: New and updated, Third edition.
Series: Explore the world with Gail Gibbons.
Subjects:
Rathfon, Elaine tribute
Tornadoes > Juvenile nonfiction.
Picture books.
Summary: Newly revised and vetted by weather experts, this informational introduction to tornadoes provides more than 50 tornado facts, including how they form, the scale used for classifying them and the safest places to go in case one should happen near you.
Physical Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780823458073
0823458075
Author Notes: Gail Gibbons was born in 1944 in Oak Park, Illinois. She received a degree in graphic design from the University of Illinois. She got a job doing artwork for television shows in New York City. She was eventually offered a job creating art for a children's show, where some of the children asked her if she had ever considered doing a children's books. Her first book, Willy and His Wheel Wagon, was published in 1975. Since then she has written and illustrated more than 170 non-fiction books for children including Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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