![]() ![]() ![]() With a perfect (at least in my humble opinion) marriage of Charlotte Zolotow's informative but also caressingly soft narrative and Margaret Bloy Graham's always evocative, realistically imaginative and esoteric images, the meticulous details of rain, of thunder, lightning and finally a rainbow are featured, are represented quietly and calmly, without excitement, without exaggeration, utterly enchantingly, beautifully. ![]() If you are reaching for Charlotte Zolotow's The Storm Book (which brilliant descriptively evocative accompanying illustrations won a 1953 Caldecott Honour award for illustrator Margaret Bloy Graham) because you are wanting to read an adventure or severe weather disaster style of account, you will more than likely be rather disappointed (for The Storm Book is basically and simply just a sweetly gentle, tenderly descriptive depiction of what precisely and actually occurs during a standard but not overly severe thunderstorm in the country, in the city, in the mountains). ![]()
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