Biography Informational

 

Summary of the book:

"All About Weather: A First Weather Book for Kids" is an informational book about weather. The book describes how the weather changes, giving facts about the four seasons. The book provides facts about what temperature water freezes, why it rains, and what causes rainbows and storms (Harajli & Sanders, 2021). The book also talks about the different forms of clouds and so much more (Harajli & Sanders, 2021). 

 

Evaluate Genre/ Illustrations

When comparing the book to the quality of nonfiction books, the book meets all of the criteria to be a quality nonfiction book. The book presents factual information for the reader to learn about the subject (Harajli & Sanders, 2021). The illustrations support the book's text and offer a visual picture of what is being presented in the text. The Illustrations in the book were watercolor pictures, very colorful and blended. The book gives factual information about the weather, including the four seasons children can learn from (Harajli & Sanders, 2021). The illustrator of the book is Jane Sanders. Sanders is the illustrator for several books such as "Woodland Walk: A Whispering Words Book," "I'll Walk with You," and many more (Good Reads, 2023).

 

Motivational Activities 

After reading "All About Weather: A First Weather Book for Kids," a small group drawing activity could be done. Each group would be given a season or an element about the weather, such as clouds, rainbows, etc., and the students would have to explain their drawings in a group to the class. 

Another activity could be a question and response with the class as the book is being read. There is much information on each page; stopping to answer questions about each page is an excellent way to get the students involved and think about the text being read aloud. Questions could be: What temperature does water freeze? Or how many sides does each snowflake have? And so on. They also show the students the pictures throughout the book as the text is being read so they can connect visually with the text.  

  

Personal comments/ Author background information:

The Book "All About Weather: A First Weather Book for Kids" is a great book to introduce to a classroom as learning material about seasons and weather experienced during the different seasons. The colorful illustration will draw the children's attention to the images and help connect the text with visuals to understand what is being presented. The Author of the book is Huda Harajli (Stacie, 2020). Harajli is an author and elementary school teacher who loves teaching about the weather (Stacie, 2020). Harajli has written several other books, such as "Green on Green," " Freddy the Frogcaster, " " The flash flood," and several others (Stacie, 2020). 

References 

Goodreads. (2023). Books by Jane Sanders (author of Hiit Made Easy - burn fat and lose weight fast). Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/226138.Jane_Sanders 

Harajli, H., & Sanders, J. (2021). All about weather: A first weather book for kids. Rockridge Press. 

Stacie. (2020, April 21). Children’s book review: All about the weather by Huda Harajli, MA. Sincerely Stacie. https://www.sincerelystacie.com/2020/04/childrens-book-review-all-about-the-weather-by-huda-harajli-ma/