Archives for: "January 2010"
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,… more »
Anticipating Snowfall...
January 25th, 2010The January thaw lasted extra long this year, with temperatures yesterday topping 50F here in Kalamazoo. But in the winter the warm days are usually precede a cold snap - and it's cooling off a bit now. A little snow is actually blowing in the air.… more »
USA Today's Book Roundup
January 21st, 2010The Story of Snow is featured in today's USA Today's Book Roundup - in an article entitled Weather the Winter with a Picture Book. The book is described as "an artistic science lesson about the rise and fall of snow crystals." The article also… more »
Reviews in McClatchy Newspapers
January 19th, 2010On Monday several of the newspapers for the McClatchy company ran a review of The Story of Snow in their "Read It:" column. An excerpt: "Part science, part art, this beautiful book explains a bit of the chemistry behind winter's cold, white… more »
NSTA Recommends: The Story of Snow
January 14th, 2010A little while ago I mentioned that The Story of Snow was named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for 2010 by the national Science Teachers Association and Children's Book Council. Here's a link to a review that appeared a couple of days ago on the… more »
New Reviews in The Washington Post and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
January 7th, 2010Here are two new reviews of The Story of Snow: Washington DC has seen a bit of snow of late, on the heels of that the Washington Post says "The engaging "Story of Snow" -- featuring a succinct text, spare illustrations in gray-and-blue hues and… more »
A Few More Lighting Experiments
January 6th, 2010I'm continuing to work on taking snow crystal photos to the next level. It's funny because in past years I tried different approaches to lighting, and none of them worked. So it was a surprise when I picked up a couple of spare C9 holiday lights,… more »
Happy New Year 2010
January 1st, 2010A nice lake effect snow blew in early this morning to greet the new year. I spent a little time photographing out in the garage. It's a new year so I tried a couple of new ideas for lighting the snow crystals - this one worked! Not much else to show for… more »
Feedback from the Blogosphere
January 1st, 2010Here are three reviews of The Story of Snow that have appeared in the blogosphere over the last month (plus a few days): Abby (the) Librarian describes the books as "beautiful and interesting" and discuses pairing it with Snowflake Bentley when… more »
