Fly Guy Presents: Weather (Scholastic Reader, Level 2)

It's time for a field trip! Fly Guy and Buzz are going to a weather station to learn all about weather. With straightforward text, humorous asides, and kid-friendly full-bleed photographs throughout, young readers will love learning about tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, and much more! Award-winning author/illustrator Tedd Arnold really brings nonfiction to life for beginning readers! And this book has eye-catching holographic foil on the front cover! From School Library Journal PreS-Gr 2-The lovable, bug-eyed Fly Guy and his boy Buzz are back for another foray into a nonfiction subject-weather. The water cycle, types of weather events, and weather-related careers are some of the topics addressed. Buzz and Fly Guy appear within each spread, interacting humorously with the photographs. Pages alternate between a layout of framed photographs with standard text and a notebook layout done in a handwritten font. Factoids are attention-grabbing but may prompt questions the book cannot answer. A statement about how animals can get trapped in a waterspout "until they fall from the sky-like rain" appears next to a photograph of some frogs (all their feet on the ground), matter-of-factly labeled "FROGS." Puzzlingly, the coverage of weather is framed within Buzz and Fly Guy's visit to a weather station, yet the text does not define what a weather station is. However, the humor and fun will spark curiosity in students needing a bit more jazz in their nonfiction. VERDICT A worthy introduction to weather for lower elementary students.-Sara White, Seminole County Public Library, Casselberry, FL Review Praise for Fly Guy Presents: Weather: "The humor and fun will spark curiosity in students needing a bit more jazz in their nonfiction. VERDICT A worthy introduction to weather for lower elementary students." -- School Library Journal Praise for Fly Guy Presents: Bats: ?The author offers a ton of facts about bats?Strong photos work well with the illustrations?Sure to fly off library shelves.? -- School Library Journal Praise for Fly Guy Presents: Sharks: "A first-rate sharkfest, unusually nutritious for all its brevity." -- Kirkus ReviewsPraise for Fly Guy Presents: Space:"An eye-catching lesson on space that aspiring astronauts and astronomers will not want to miss." -- BooklistPraise for Hi! Fly Guy:"Readers drawn in by the flashy foil will stick around to applaud this unusually capable critter." -- Publishers Weekly From the Back Cover Fly Guy is buzzing over to the weather station today. Come along to learn all about weather! About the Author Tedd Arnold is the bestselling author and illustrator of the Fly Guy, Green Wilma, Parts, and Huggly series, and the illustrator of Detective Blue. He has received Theodor Seuss Geisel Honors for Hi! Fly Guy and I Spy Fly Guy! Tedd lives with his wife, Carol, in Florida.