Washoe County Library System

A young child ruminates on the favorite weather of ten different animals. If frogs made weather it would rain all the time and ponds would stay full to the brim. If polar bears made weather, winter would never end and the ground would always be covered with snow. In this cozy picture book for preschoolers, Marion Dane Bauer's lyrical poem and Dorothy Donohue's beautiful cut-paper art encourage children to speculate on what it would be like if animals...

A simple introduction to the work meteorologists do, discussing where they work, the tools that they use, and their importance to the community they serve.

The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree comes a compelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have. Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful...