You’ll discover those really soft, cotton-like cumulus clouds and some really scary yet intriguing whirling funnels. There are also books that are more photo focused, allowing you to explore the different formations as they’ve been captured at just the right moment by photographers.

This could be a great jumping-off point to explore the skies, not just the clouds you’re able to perceive when the sun is out but also what happens when the moon comes out. But with each of those changes and each new cloud formation, the sky is letting you know what to expect when it comes to the weather.

On car rides or barbeques, little ones will point and say look, that cloud looks like a horse or dragon. The Cloudspotter's Guide is written with charm, wit and with clear informative explanations to the science of clouds - how and why they form and the different types of cloud.

Perfect for budding weather-watchers, this beautifully illustrated book will help children identify all kinds of clouds. Simple, whimsical illustrations show the variations in shape and color that herald changes in the weather. In this unique picture book, Tomie introduces some of the most common types of clouds, as well as the myths and legends inspired by their shapes.Gallery of Clouds opens in New York City with a dream, or a vision, of meeting Virginia Woolf in the afterlife. Reading level is so important when it comes to children because if it’s too complex, they may feel disappointed that they can’t follow, and if it’s much too simple, they may feel less interested. Needless to say, we were lucky to get out of the way of the swelling cumulus which seemed to be coming after us as we were about to be sucked in.

The book covers the history, science and art of clouds, including the controversial history of cloud modification. This collection of fiction and nonfiction books about clouds for preschoolers is perfect any time of year! A] brief but intense meditation on the pastoral form, Philip Sydney and all the ways we find ourselves reconfigured by reading books. This guidebook will teach you how to identify each type of cloud, what processes produce them, the significance each type has for the weather, and some of the optical phenomena that are produced by certain types of clouds. The text in this book isn’t very engaging (“just the facts, ma’am”), but I like that it has a single full page photo on the left and just a few sentences on the right of each double page spread.Illustrated in full colour throughout with over 200 colour photographs and additional colour line drawings. This is not the case with this book - it is chock full of huge photographs illustrating the cloud types well. Clouds that can be mistaken for flying saucers, the white “clouds” that appear behind jet planes, and other celestial phenomena such as the Northern and Southern Lights, shooting stars, and rainbows are also explained.