Prairie Storms
by Darcy Pattison, illustrated by Kathleen Rietz
32 page picture book
hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60718-129-3
paperback ISBN: 978-1-60718-139-2
English eBook ISBN: 978-1-60718-149-1
Spanish eBook ISBN: 978-1-60718-159-0
Where the land is flat, the sky’s dome becomes a blank canvas for storms. In this lyrical book, experience a year of prairie storms from the point of view of native wild life who must shelter, hide, escape, disappear, endure and withstand those storms. Watch the sand hill cranes avoid the tornado, the red fox thrill to a soft evening shower, the earless lizard shimmy as it disappears beneath the burning sands of summer, the cougar dodge hail stones, the bald eagle shed sleet and the bison face into the teeth of a blizzard and stand defiant. Each month features a storm typical of that season and a prairie animal in its normal habitat. The prairie biome or ecosystem is explored through its weather, especially its storms. Told in lyrical prose, this story is a celebration of the grasslands that dominates the center of American lands.
Resources for Press
- Prairie Storms on Sylvan Dell Publishing
- Sample pdf of Prairie Storms
- Information Sheet on Prairie Storms
- For Creative Minds Activities Guides
- 52-Page Teaching Activities guide includes many lesson plans for using Prairie Storms in elementary language arts and science classes.
- Prairie Storms Aligned to Education Standards, including Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Science Standards
Coming August, 2012, Companion Book: Desert Baths
Watch the vulture bask in the morning sun, the roadrunner kick up a cloud of dust, the javelina wallow, and the bobcat give her cub a licking with a rough tongue in Desert Baths. As the sun travels across the sky, learn how twelve different desert animals face the difficulties of staying clean in a dry and parched land. Explore the desert habitat through its animals and their habits of hygiene. Told in lyrical prose, this story is a celebration of the desert lands of the American Southwest.
Read more about Desert Baths here.
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By: Darcy Pattison,
on 7/15/2011
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Last year, I interviewed Joelle Anthony about her use of a GoodReads giveaway to promote her book. One of her biggest reasons to go with GoodReads is that she had 1348 people enter the giveaway. Here are some other interesting statistics from GoodReadshere and here:
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By: Aaron Starmer,
on 11/5/2010
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Bubble Girl is famous on the internet for getting herself into some dodgy situations. But, bless her, she always manages to turn the motor on and hightail it away from danger. Here’s a recent photo from her trip to Yellowstone. Grizzly bears don’t take kindly to folks stealing their honey. Mark that down as another lesson learned, Bubble Girl.
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By: Rebecca,
on 10/14/2008
Blog: OUPblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags: Poland, Geography, park, Ben's Place of the Week, atlas, ben keene, Bialowieski National Park, bialowieski, belarusian, wisent, broadleaf, bison, capsule, Add a tag
Bialowieski National Park, Poland Coordinates: 52 43 N 23 50 E Area: 25,946 acres (10,500 hectares) Here in the US, all eyes are on the stock market and the upcoming election, two things that have caused people to brush up on their history, both economic and political. Since I happened across a geographic/natural time capsule of sorts this week, I thought I’d blog about it. Looking at a map of the world’s population distribution, you might conclude that Europe simply couldn’t possess any areas that have escaped change brought about by human activity. And yet, in westernmost Poland, along the Belarusian border, a primeval woodland supports trees that are many centuries old, as well as endangered animals such as the wisent, or European bison. So although it’s a relatively small part of a larger unprotected landscape, Bialowieski National Park stands today as one of the last sections of the old growth broadleaf forest that once covered much of the North European Plain. I find it truly remarkable that any virgin remnant exists after serving as a playground for Polish, Lithuanian, and Russian royalty, and then enduring two destructive world wars.  Ben Keene is the editor of Oxford Atlas of the World. Check out some of his previous places of the week.
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