![]() ![]() Children will enjoy sitting next to the cute animal customers and pretending to eat their ice creams. The outside of Convertible Ice Cream Shop shows brightly coloured ice cream tubs and ice cream cones in stands, ready for the slot together ice cream scoops to be added on top. The beautifully illustrated Convertible Ice Cream Shop is made out of six sturdy card panels, and is easy to put up, fold down and play with wherever you wish, be it a bedroom, kitchen, garden or even the park! When playtime is over, simply fold down and easily store like any large book. Simple question-based activities for kids to do, based on key vocab of colours, numbers and counting.Wonderful, bright illustration by Sophia Touliatou to appeal to your child's imagination.Elementary-aged to middle-grade readers will find much to learn about the weather in this book.Convertible Ice Cream Shop is the perfect playbook for toddlers aged 3+ years to play shops with their friends or independently. The detail, especially in the tornado pop-up, is realistic with trees, books, and a bicycle spinning in the tornado. The pop-up features will engage readers young and old. By caring for our Earth’s resources, living more sustainably, and switching our energy to renewable sources we can contribute to protecting our climate.Ĭlassrooms or homeschool families would love having this book on hand for a weather unit. The end of the book includes a section on climate change. As someone who lives in an area with frequent tornados, I appreciated her description and danger warning. She also discusses how dangerous some of these weather acts can be. I was amazed at the way she explains polar fronts, low and high pressure, and evaporation so clear and easy to understand. ![]() Each weather act is explained in child language that helps to understand what is happening in that particular weather act. In this book, Biederstaedt shares five different weather scenarios with amazing pop-up features. They will learn how the weather can be different all over the world due to wind and sun in certain areas that can affect others. Whether your child loves keeping track of the weather in your area or is interested in what causes stormy seas or tornados in the Midwest, your child will be awed by the large, detailed pop-ups on each page. Opinions are mine, alone and are freely given. I received a complimentary copy to facilitate a review. This book is probably not suitable for public or school libraries, but it certainly is appropriate for home school book shelves, private collections, and anyone interested in pursing early introduction to weather studies. This introduction to weather study doesn't forego the opportunity to present the effect of mankind on the Earth and how climate change has an affect on the weather. The artistry of paper-cut art work provides intriguing dimensional interest as well as attention to detail. Then the "pop-up" pages begin with short explanations. The effect of the Earth's rotation on the wind and driving force the Sun is on our weather. The very first pages explain "Why the weather is the way it is" and shows the Earth with it's covering of clouds and swirling arrows indicative of the air flow and wind currents. The book we have today is a beautiful pop-up book that is packed with information describing Earth's weather systems and illustrated with delightful, awesome, pop-ups that are stunning. Therefore, introducing children and teens to the study of The Weather should begin early so they can understand what is happening in the World around them. This type of storm (or weather) is monstrous, destructive, life threatening and people need to be aware of the dangers. A wondrous introduction to weather for budding climatologists, this is also an artistic tour de force that collectors will treasure.Īs I write this review, there is a major Category 4 hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast of the USA specifically in the Louisiana area. Each page features an informative description of its weather event and the book closes with sobering commentary on the effects of climate change. Nature's delicate beauty emerges in the intricate shapes of a snowflake and in the luminous arc of a rainbow. As each spread unfolds, a meticulously designed landscape emerges-a freighter balances like a nutshell between high waves in the sea a tornado takes terrifying aim at a truck trying to outrun it a rain-spewing storm cloud towers like a skyscraper over a farm house. Now Biederstaedt takes book engineering to new heights as she immerses readers in five electrifying weather scenarios. In her hugely successful books Creatures of the Deep and What's in the Egg, as well as her enormously popular series of greeting cards for the Museum of Modern Art, Maike Biederstaedt has established herself as one of the preeminent paper artists working today. ![]()
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