Category: Announcements
A Few Irregulars
March 7th, 2010I hear the birds sing in the morning - the Cardinal with his 'bomb drop' song, the slurry scrabbly song of starlings at first light, and the 'To-hee to-hee chickachickadeedeedee' of Chickadees - the only bird that sings in deep winter, and gets all the… more »
Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best - 2010" List
February 20th, 2010The Chicago Public Library recently published its "Best of the Best 2010" list - and The Story of Snow is on it! The library describes the list as including books that are "some of the very best published for kids in 2009." You can see the whole list h… more »
Three From This Evening
February 15th, 2010A gentle snow has been falling this evening - here are three new photos, more will be coming: more »
It Snowed Today
February 9th, 2010It snowed today. It's snowing now. At first it was hard and driving, wet and clumping. Now it is dry and dusty, tiny and incomplete. But between those things it breifly fell, small and well formed, tiny dots just a millimeter or so across. Here's one p… more »
Blue Ribbon From BCCB
January 28th, 2010The Story of Snow has been awarded a 2009 Blue Ribbon from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books! You can see all the details here: http://bccb.lis.illinois.edu/blue09.html - Mark more »
Snow at last!
January 27th, 2010A light snow has been falling for the last few days. It's not been much. I look out my window at the lawn mowed last fall, and green tips of grass blades poke out of the snow. On the internet I see the lake effect snow bands playing out to the north, bu… more »
USA Today's Book Roundup
January 21st, 2010The Story of Snow if featured in today's USA Today's Book Roundup - in an article entitled Weather the Winter with a Picture Book. The books is described as "an artistic science lesson about the rise and fall of snow crystals." You can read the on-line… more »
Not the Worst Winter Ever
December 29th, 2009The winter of 2009/10 is still quite young, and no one knows what it holds. But at this early date there is one thing I can say for sure – when it comes to snow crystal photos, it won’t be the year ever. I don’t feel like digging into my records to fig… more »
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