Eyewitness Hurricane & Tornado: Encounter Nature's Most Extreme Weather Phenomena--From Turbulent Twisters to Fie

By Jack Challoner

Book Overview

Eyewitness: Hurricane & Tornado is a compelling guide to nature's most dangerous and destructive forces. Striking images, models and illustrations offer a unique view of catastrophic weather conditions allowing readers to see into the eye of a cyclone, witness hailstones the size of tennis balls, and learn how a gentle mountain stream can become a raging surge within a few minutes. Learn the techniques developed through the centuries to forecast weather, see a chicken that was stripped of its feathers by a tornado, and how human activity can cause weather patterns to change.

For over 25 years, DK's Eyewitness books have been the most trusted nonfiction series in classrooms, libraries, and homes around the world. In summer 2014 this award-winning series will get a fresh new look both inside and out. The introduction of paperback editions, eye-catching jackets, and updated interiors ensure that the Eyewitness series will continue to be relevant in the ever-changing world of education and remain the go-to source for homework help, research projects, reluctant readers, ESL students, and, as always, to satisfy the minds of curious kids.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1465420533
• ISBN13: 9781465420534
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.6" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

This was good

The only thing is I thought it would have more pictures of tornadoes but it didn’t. So other than that it was fine

Extreme Weather

I am an adult but have read about 35-40 DK Eyewitness books in the past 15 months. I'm catching up with a lot of the science I never learned in school, and the illustrations and simple style that is easy for young readers to understand while not talking down to adults like me are invaluable in building my knowledge of these subject areas. I have a perverse interest in tornadoes, so I looked forward to reading this book. However, I think a better title for this book would have been "Extreme Weather". Of the 60-some pages of material in this book, only 4 each are devoted to the subjects of hurricanes and tornadoes. The remainder of the book is devoted to weather basics (also covered excellently in the book in this series called "Weather") and other severe and extreme weather conditions. Despite this somewhat misleading title, I highly recommend this book and all of the DK Eyewitness books that I've read. A somewhat newer book in the series, "Natural Disasters", covers some of the same material plus non-weather-related calamities such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and disease epidemics. "Natural Disasters" was published recently enough to include coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004.

Great book for young weather enthusiast!

My twins, age 4 1/2, love this book. Interesting history of weather phenomena, and some really great pictures!

SO EXCITING

I"M INTERESTED ABOUT HRRICANES AND TORNADOES TOO THIS DK BOOK WAS JUST SO EXCITING [...]

I Love Eyewitness Books! I want them in Spanish too!

This is a great addition to the Eyewitness Series. Kids will go nuts over all the information on tornados and hurricanes. It's right up disaster alley.