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Snowflake Bentley
- Title
- Snowflake Bentley / Jacqueline Briggs Martin ; illustrated by Mary Azarian.
- Author
- Martin, Jacqueline Briggs.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©1998.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 x 27 cm
- Summary
- A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations. Snow in Vermont is as common as dirt. Why would anyone want ot photograph it? From the time he was a small boy, Wilson Bentley thinks of ice crystals as small miracles, and he determines that one day his camera will capture for others their extraordinary beauty. Often misunderstood in his time, he took pictures that even today reveal two important truths about snowflakes: first, that no two are alike, and second, that each one is startlingly beautiful. HIs story gives children insight into a soul who had not only a scientist's vision and perserverance, but a clear passion for the wonders of nature.--Publisher information.
- Subjects
- Meteorologists
- Photographers
- Meteorologists > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Juvenile works
- Snow
- Photographers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Snowflakes > Juvenile literature
- Biography
- Scientists
- Bentley, W. A (Wilson Alwyn), 1865-1931 > Juvenile literature
- Nature photography > Juvenile literature
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Juvenile works.
- Note
- Art techniques used:Hand tinted woodcut prints.
- Audience (note)
- Elementary Grade.
- 830
- Awards (note)
- ALA Notable Children's Book, 1999
- Caldecott Medal, 1999
- Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K- 2 Award, 1999
- Call Number
- JFF 99-1335
- ISBN
- 0395861624
- 9780395861622
- LCCN
- 97012458
- OCLC
- 36676027
- Author
- Martin, Jacqueline Briggs.
- Title
- Snowflake Bentley / Jacqueline Briggs Martin ; illustrated by Mary Azarian.
- Imprint
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©1998.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- Elementary Grade.
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader 4.4.Reading Counts! 4.1.
- Audience
- 830 Lexile.
- Awards
- ALA Notable Children's Book, 1999Caldecott Medal, 1999Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K- 2 Award, 1999
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- United States Massachusetts Boston.
- Added Author
- Azarian, Mary, illustrator.Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 99-1335J B Bentley M