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While sitting through a fearsome thunderstorm that has put the lights out, Thomas hears a story from Grandfather's boyhood, when Grandfather was afraid of thunderstorms.Tags
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I'm all but speechless. This is such a beautiful story, both in art and in text. Most of the story is told through dialogue, in such a way that the reader is participating fully in understanding these people and their ideas, and then the themes. The description almost does it justice, with the quote from the beginning, and the words Discoveries, and Lyrical....
Bonus: the grandfather and young boy are apparently all the family each has, and they happen to be Black, so this gets 'diversity' credit for educators in the US.
Recommended especially for families, especially in anticipation of thunderstorm season.
Bonus: the grandfather and young boy are apparently all the family each has, and they happen to be Black, so this gets 'diversity' credit for educators in the US.
Recommended especially for families, especially in anticipation of thunderstorm season.
This book is full of descriptive words so you can create a movie in your head while you read along. It also has beautiful images to help enhance the readers experience with the book so they can see what the storm might be like in their head. I would read this book with children that were at the end of their first grade year or the beginning of their second grade year.
Extremely too long for storytime, a boy, grandpa and a cat telling tales after the lights go out during a storm.
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Mary Stolz was born on March 24, 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied at the Teachers College of Columbia University and the Katharine Gibbs School before going to work at Columbia as a secretary. She suffered from debilitating arthritis and wrote her first book during a long convalescence. To Tell Your Love was published in 1950. She wrote show more more than 60 children and young adult books during her lifetime including Ready or Not, Some Merry-Go-Round Music, Leap Before You Look, The Leftover Elf, Emmett's Pig, A Dog on Barkham Street, Cider Days, Ivy Larkin, and The Edge of Next Year. In a Mirror won a Child Study Children's Book Award and The Bully of Barkham Street won a Boys' Club Junior Book Award. Belling the Tiger and The Noonday Friends were named Newbery Honor books. In 1982, she received a George G. Stone Recognition of Merit Award for her entire body of work. She also wrote one adult novel entitled Truth and Consequence. She died of natural causes on December 15, 2006 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Storm in the Night
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- For Thomas and his Cats, Alfredo & Gringo AND for Valrie and Robert and theirs, Mistletoes, Sir Hilary & Mache -M.S.
for my grandfathers, James Cummings and Robert Taylor -P.C. - First words
- Storm in the night.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)After a while the lights came on. They turned them off and went to bed.
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