The Joplin Tornado: What a Warning Actually Buys You
The warning went out before the tornado arrived. More than a hundred and fifty people died anyway. Both halves of that sentence are worth a child understanding.
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The Dust Bowl, 1935: Drought Was Not the Disaster
Blow across a plate of flour and most of it stays put. It takes bigger grains bouncing along the ground to knock the fine stuff up where the wind can...
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California Wildfires, 2018: A Fire Starts Years Early
Your child thinks a wildfire begins when something catches fire. It begins about ten years earlier, in a wet spring, and that is the one idea this book is well...
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Nobody in 1348 Knew What Was Killing Them
Every person in this book is wrong about what is killing them. Not foolish. Wrong in a specific, careful, understandable way, and that is the most interesting thing in it.
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Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967: Who Fed the Bears
The bears in this story did not walk out of the woods as monsters. They walked out of a dump that people had been filling for years. That is the...
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Yucky Worms: The Book You Can Check in the Garden
Read it, then go outside and see whether it was telling the truth. Very few books hand a five year old the means to check them, and this one does.
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