Wacky Weather

Spring is known for its wacky weather.  Just this past weekend, there was massive flooding in Texas, a snowstorm that dropped four feet of snow in Colorado, and beautiful 80 degree sunshine in Missouri.  You never know from one day to the next what the weather will be.  So, here are some of my favorite weather books for your children . . . .

Bear in Sunshine by Stella Blackstone
Bear likes to play in all kinds of weather.

Hello, Sun! by Dayle Ann Doods
A young child must change clothes many times as the weather goes from sunny to cloudy to rainy to snowy.

Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse
A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppresive summer heat.

Snow Day! by Lester Laminack
Two siblings imagine all the fun things they will do the next day when the big predicted snowfall cancels school, but when the morning comes, no snow has fallen, and it turns out someone else wanted a snow day even more than they did.

Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him.


More Weather Picture Books --
Blizzard by John Rocco
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Dinosaur Thunder by Marion Dane Bauer
Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root
Heat Wave at Mud Flat by James Stevenson
Kite Day: A Bear and Mole Story by Will Hillenbrand
Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack
One Rainy Day by Valeria Gorbachev
Rainstorm by Barbara Lehman
Snow by Uri Shulevitz
The Snowy Day by Jack Ezra Keats
The Storm Book by Charlotte Zolotow
Straight to the Pole by Kevin O'Malley
Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle
When Winter Comes by Nancy Van Laan
Winter Woes by Marty Kelley

Check out these and more weather picture books on display at the Arnold Branch through May 6, 2016.