Cloud Dance - Hardcover

Locker, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152022317 ISBN 13: 9780152022310

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000

Synopsis

A journey into the world of clouds introduces some of the many kinds of clouds including thick cumulous clouds, wispy cirrus clouds, and wide stratus clouds; and provides accompanying scientific information.

About this title

About the Authors

Thomas Locker has written and illustrated many award-winning books for children, including Where the River Begins, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. He lives at the edge of the Hudson River in New York

Thomas Locker has written and illustrated many award-winning books for children, including Where the River Begins, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. He lives at the edge of the Hudson River in New York

Reviews

PreSchool-Grade 2-This beautifully designed book celebrates clouds as they appear during the different hours of the day and seasons of the year. Each two-page spread features a few lines of prose on the verso and an illustration encompassing most of the recto. The oil paintings are done in subdued and relaxing colors. Many of them show a small child walking with an adult on a path. The book does not have a lot of action, but would be perfect for quiet and relaxed sharing between adult and child. Factual information about clouds is provided on the last two pages.
Sheilah Kosco, Rapides Parish Library, Alexandria, LA
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Gr. 3-5. This picture book for older children follows Water Dance (1997) in what one hopes will be a long series. It blends Locker's spare, poetic, informative text with his well-known Hudson River school-style landscapes. The strength here, as with many of his works, is the way Locker lets his paintings do most of the talking. Austere lines of text ("High, wispy clouds race in the autumn wind" or "Fluffy summer clouds march in the blue sky") are complemented by art that goes beyond the call of illustrative duty to reveal the wonder and beauty of the sky in different seasons and under various meteorological conditions. The paintings speak eloquently of the complete, seamless quality of the elemental natural world. An informative section at the book's end, entitled "About Clouds," links the beauty to the science. With Locker's immediate stylistic connection to the Hudson River painters, Cloud Dance becomes a successful blend of fiction, science, and art. Tim Arnold
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Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0152022317
• ISBN 13: 9780152022310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32