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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>December 2011 Book Club
Selection<br>
Snowflake Bentley<br>
By Jacqueline Briggs Martin<br>
Print/braille edition, $7.99<br>
In contracted braille with skip lines<br>
Ages 4-8<br>
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Includes a sheet of tactile illustrations of different <br>
snowflakes by artist Ann Cunningham.<br>
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Most children are captivated by snow, but how many go on<br>
to make it their lifework? <br>
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From the time he was a little boy, Wilson Bentley loved snow. <br>
Yet snow was frustrating to him. He could pick flowers for his <br>
mother or net butterflies, but he couldn't hold on to snowflakes. <br>
Bentley tried drawing snow crystals, but they would melt too quickly.
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Then, as a teenager in the 1870s, he read about a camera with a <br>
microscope. His family were Vermont farmers, but they scraped together
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the money to buy him the camera. From then on, there was no stopping
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Bentley, who was nicknamed Snowflake. He spent winters photographing
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the intricate flakes. At first no one cared - 'Snow in Vermont is as
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common as dirt!' But Bentley found fame as a nature photographer, and
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even today his photo book of snowflakes is considered a primary
source.<br>
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'There will be so many uses for this book - not the least of which is
simply <br>
handing it to children and letting their imaginations soar like
Bentley's!'<br>
- Booklist, starred review <br>
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Awards<br>
1999 Caldecott Medal Winner<br>
Booklist Editors Choice<br>
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon<br>
NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children<br>
New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing <br>
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