What a wonderfully visual book on lightning, nature’s fireworks!

Thunder and Lightning is divided into four sections: Thunderclouds, Lightning. Thunder, and How Lightning Forms. “Thunderclouds” describes these clouds as being dark, containing hail and / or water droplets and/or ice. Page 8 states, “ The wind moves everything around. The water droplets crash into each other. This makes static electricity. An electric charge builds up.” Then the next section,  “Lightning” goes onto state the static electricity “escapes” as lightning. Lightning moves between clouds, inside of clouds, and/or from clouds to the ground. Lightning travels to earth from negative charges to positive charges. “Thunder” states the heat from the lightning causes “a rumbling or cracking noise. This sound is thunder.” (p.18)  The information ends with two labeled graphics. The first graphic shows the relationship of the speed of lightning in connection with when the thunder will be heard. The second graphic shows “How Lightning Forms” in relation to positive and negative charges within clouds and on the ground.

The young reader will find four large font sentences on the left page opposite of the 9″ X 10.75″  color photo on the right hand page which bleeds over onto the left hand page.

Includes a Glossary, Index, and abdokids.com.