Twisters and Other Terrible Storms: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #23: Twister on Tuesday (Magic Tree House Fact Tracker)

Osborne, Mary Pope; Osborne, Will

ISBN 10: 0375913580 ISBN 13: 9780375913587

Publisher: Random House Childrens Books, 2003

Synopsis

Describes the changing nature of weather and how meteorologists predict and study such storms as tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards. Simultaneous.

About this title

About the Author:

WILL OSBORNE and MARY POPE OSBORNE have been married for a number of years and live in northwestern Connecticut with their three dogs, Joey, Mr. Bezo, and Little Bear.
 
Mary is the author of over one hundred books for children, including novels, picture books, biographies, and retellings of fairy tales and world mythologies. Will has worked for many years in the theater as an actor, director, and playwright. Together he and Mary have coauthored two books of Greek mythology and eight Magic Tree House® Fact Trackers. Will has also written a multimedia planetarium show, Magic Tree House Space Mission, and is cocreator with Randy Courts of Magic Tree House: The Musical, a full-scale Broadway-style family musical based on Christmas in Camelot.
 
SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated more than 200 children's trade and text books. He is also a librettist for children's opera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, and bicyclist, and a teacher of children's illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Sal lives and works in New York with his wife, Nancy.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap:

What causes the earth’s weather? How do twisters form? What are the deadliest storms on earth? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide: Twisters and Other Terrible Storms, Jack and Annie’s guide to nature’s wildest weather. Includes photographs, definitions, an index, information on twisters, hurricanes, blizzards, forecasting the weather, storm chasers, and much more!
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375913580
• ISBN 13: 9780375913587
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 119
• Illustrator: Murdocca Sal