Prairie Storms

by Darcy Pattison, illustrated by Kathleen Rietz
32 page picture book
hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60718-129-3
paperback ISBN: 978-1-60718-139-2
English eBook ISBN: 978-1-60718-149-1
Spanish eBook ISBN: 978-1-60718-159-0

Where the land is flat, the sky’s dome becomes a blank canvas for storms. In this lyrical book, experience a year of prairie storms from the point of view of native wild life who must shelter, hide, escape, disappear, endure and withstand those storms. Watch the sand hill cranes avoid the tornado, the red fox thrill to a soft evening shower, the earless lizard shimmy as it disappears beneath the burning sands of summer, the cougar dodge hail stones, the bald eagle shed sleet and the bison face into the teeth of a blizzard and stand defiant. Each month features a storm typical of that season and a prairie animal in its normal habitat. The prairie biome or ecosystem is explored through its weather, especially its storms. Told in lyrical prose, this story is a celebration of the grasslands that dominates the center of American lands.