Twisters and Other Terrible Storms: A Nonfiction Companion to Twister on Tuesday

There are numerous reasons why I like this book. I think this a perfect balance of facts and fun for children. The writing in the book is very engaging. Osborne writes the book so Jack and Annie pose questions, and then they answer these questions by using facts. For example, “What is weather? Why does the weather change from day to day? Why does it sometimes cause so much damage?” (Page 15). This writing makes a non-fiction book that can be often boring at times very fun and engaging for students to read. In addition to the engaging writing, the author also includes interesting illustrations that help enhance the readers meaning of the facts. For example on page 14, the author includes a drawing that is so realistic, it looks like show more a black and white photograph. This is very interesting to the reader and will cause them to continue reading and figure out the meaning and context of the pictures. Overall, the big idea of this non-fiction chapter book is to inform the reader about many “scary storms”. show less

I believe that this short chapter book is an excellent informational book for young readers. I really enjoyed that this book provides factual information but through the use of the familiar characters of the Magic Tree House series. The characters ask questions and discover the answers throughout the text. Therefore, I enjoyed reading the book because it was not simply just a significant amount of information the author presented the information in interesting ways through the use of interesting illustrations. The illustrations help to present the information and served as excellent tools to support comprehension. I loved the language of the book because the terms that are used within are very simple and thoroughly explained. The author show more also provides an index and definitions in the book. Lastly, I liked that the book provided ways for people to protect themselves through various natural disasters. I learned a significant amount of information that I did not know prior to reading this book. The main idea of the book is to provide information about storm chasers, weather forecasting, tornadoes, twisters, hurricanes, and blizzards. show less

"Twisters and Other Terrible Storms" By Mary Pope and Will Osborne is a companion book to "Twister on Tuesday" and it explains what causes the bad weather that causes tornados. This book includes the deffinitions and has great pictures.
I love the Magic Treehouse series. The books bring awareness to the students without them even realizing it. This informational book is a great book to read to the class to accompany a science lesson concerning weather.
The extentions I would do with this book is after going over wether patterns I would have the class read this book as a group and then tell about what they learned. This discussion group will help open the students minds. This activity will lead into my next extention which is to have the show more students get 11x13 paper to draw a scene that shows the cause and effects of tornado's. It should also show a way to protect ones self. If at home go to a celler or hallway. if the picture is at school show the students in the designated safe zone. this activity will help the students not be fearful about such an event . When they know what to do in this kind of situaation it just empowers the students with confidence. show less

This book has any type of information you could want on tornadoes. It tells you great facts that coincide with the book, "Twister on Tuesday." It is a great way for students to learn about these dangerous storms. My interesting fact that I found was that in tornado alley there are 30 tornadoes a week during the months of April, May and June.

This book is a bibliography about twisters and other terrible storms. It has storms such as weather (like clouds, tools to measure, and jobs that predict it), hurricanes, blizzards, and storms. It illustrates them, gives fun facts, and informs readers on how to protect themselves from the storms. The theme of this book is weather and this book could be easily used to help students learn about weather, in a science segment, and could help them on how to research topics further and it gives advice on how to do this in the end. I think this book is very fascinating to have in the classroom because it defines the storms, but also gives fun facts and pictures about the storms as well.

Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun facts from Jack and Annie, this books is the perfect book for kids to learn about the different storms and why they happen. This book Includes photographs, definitions, an index, information on twisters, hurricanes, blizzards, forecasting the weather, storm chasers, etc. This is a great book for children to get better knowledge of the weather and storms around them.

An interesting read especially during Hurricane Sandy. My 6 year old and I learned a lot.