  | Something about the sky Author: Carson, Rachel | |
| Price: $23.98 | ||
Summary:
Rachel Carson once wrote, "It is not half so important to know as to feel." What do we know about clouds? There are three basic types: stratus, cumulus, and cirrus. Some are fleecy and fair-weathered while others portend storms. But clouds are more than pretty or ominous backdrops. They're the vehicle of water between sea and land, land and sea, in a cycle without end or beginning.
| Illustrator: | McClure, Nikki |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (01/01/24)
School Library Journal (+) (06/14/24)
Booklist (03/01/24)
The Hornbook (+) (00/03/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 03/01/2024 Esteemed environmentalist Carson wrote a script for a 1956 educational television program inspired by a child’s request for “something about the sky.” In nuanced words (researched and abridged by McClure), Carson articulates both the significance and the magnificence of clouds as essential and awe-inspiring elements of the sky, the world’s second ocean. Using her skilled cut-paper style, McClure outlines spare, delicate shapes—geese in flight, water droplets soaking a forest floor, a child’s solitary meander across a snowy field—and sets these expressive narrative elements against sweeping representations of sea, sky, and land rendered in layered sumi ink washes of deep blues, grays, crimsons, and golds. A fascinating collaboration from a distance of nearly 70 years, McClure’s sensitive visual realizations of Carson’s evocative words create a deeply satisfying wholeness, in which science is conveyed through poetic words and art reveals the majesty of the natural world. This informative and inspiring picture book is—as McClure comments in her thoughtful afterword about Carson’s writing—beautifully “calm and clean and comforting.” - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
