[Ohio-talk] FW: NBP-Announce: December book club selection: Snowflake Bentley

[J.W. Smith]

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Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:26 AM
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Subject: NBP-Announce: December book club selection: Snowflake Bentley

 

December 2011 Book Club Selection

Snowflake Bentley

By Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Print/braille edition, $7.99

In contracted braille with skip lines

Ages 4-8

 

Includes a sheet of tactile illustrations of different 

snowflakes by artist Ann Cunningham.

 

Most children are captivated by snow, but how many go on

to make it their lifework? 

 

>From the time he was a little boy, Wilson Bentley loved snow. 

Yet snow was frustrating to him. He could pick flowers for his 

mother or net butterflies, but he couldn't hold on to snowflakes. 

Bentley tried drawing snow crystals, but they would melt too quickly. 

Then, as a teenager in the 1870s, he read about a camera with a 

microscope. His family were Vermont farmers, but they scraped together 

the money to buy him the camera. From then on, there was no stopping 

Bentley, who was nicknamed Snowflake. He spent winters photographing 

the intricate flakes. At first no one cared - 'Snow in Vermont is as 

common as dirt!' But Bentley found fame as a nature photographer, and 

even today his photo book of snowflakes is considered a primary source.

 

'There will be so many uses for this book - not the least of which is simply


handing it to children and letting their imaginations soar like Bentley's!'

- Booklist, starred review 

 

Awards

1999 Caldecott Medal Winner

Booklist Editors Choice

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon

NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children

New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 

 

To order or read more about this book online, visit 

http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/BC1112-SNOWFLAKE.html

 

 

 

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