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Do tornadoes really twist? Questions and Answers about Tornadoes and hurricanes

Melvin and Gilda Berger

Illustrated by Higgins Bond

Non-Fiction (Series)

Ages 7 to 9

Scholastic, 2000, 0-439-14880-4

  Anyone who has read “The Wizard of Oz” will have thought about tornadoes and wondered about them. What would a real tornado do to a house in its path? How do tornadoes form? Do they do a lot of damage when they hit?

  In this interesting title from the Scholastic Questions and Answer Series the authors answer these and many other questions about tornadoes. Readers will learn that tornadoes can strike a place more than once. Oklahoma City for example has been hit by tornadoes thirty-three times in the last ninety years. The authors also include all kinds of extraordinary tornado facts. In 1958 a tornado picked up a woman and carried her sixty feet before it dropped her; and in 1915 another tornado scooped up 45,000 ducks.

  In addition to looking at tornadoes this book also answers intriguing questions about hurricanes. If you have ever wondered how hurricanes get their names you will find out here. And, among other things, you will learn what Hurricanes Hunters are.

  Using a question and answer format the authors of this book pack a great deal of information into a relatively small amount of space. Illustrations, maps, and diagrams break up the interesting and easy to follow text.

 

 

 

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