The Secret Life of a Snowflake: An Up-Close Look at the Art and Science of Snowflakes

Before a snowflake melts on your tongue, it makes an epic journey. This is the beautiful, full-color story of that journey, step by step, from a single snowflake s creation in the clouds, through its fall to earth, to its brief and sparkling appearance on a child s mitten. Told by a scientist who knows snowflakes better than almost anyone, the story features his brilliant photographs of real snowflakes, snowflakes forming (in the author s lab), water evaporating, clouds developing, ice crystals, rain, dew, and frost--all the elements of the world and weather that add up, flake by flake, to the white landscape of winter. Aimed at readers from 6 to 12, The Secret Life of a Snowflake gets to the heart of one of nature s most magical phenomena while making the wonder of the snowflake all the more real.