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Island storm

Before taking shelter, two siblings experience the excitement and beauty of an island storm from its calm beginning to its powerful peak and gentle end.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Floca, Brian (Author)
Other Authors:	Smith, Sydney, 1980- (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Holiday House, [2025]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Rain and rainfall > Juvenile fiction. Thunderstorms > Juvenile fiction. Siblings > Juvenile fiction. Nature fiction > Juvenile. Picture books.
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Summary:	Before taking shelter, two siblings experience the excitement and beauty of an island storm from its calm beginning to its powerful peak and gentle end.
Item Description:	"Neal Porter Books."
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Audience:	Ages 4-8. Grades K-1.
ISBN:	9780823456475 0823456471
Author Notes:	Brian Floca was born and raised in Temple, Texas. He graduated from Brown University and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive, winner of the 2014 Caldecott Medal. He has also written and illustrated Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Lightship, The Racecar Alphabet, and Five Trucks. He is the illustrator of the Poppy Stories series, by Avi; Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; Kate Messner's Marty McGuire novels; and Lynne Cox's forthcoming Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas. His books have received four Robert F. Sibert Honor awards, an Orbis Pictus Award, an Orbis Pictus Honor, a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators, and have twice been selected for The New York Times' annual 10 Best Illustrated Books list. (Bowker Author Biography)