The Secret Life of a Snowflake : An Up-Close Look at the Art and Science of Snowflakes

This is the story of a single snowflake - from it's creation in the clouds, following its fall to earth, and its brief sparkling appearance on a child's glove. Featuring photographs of real snowflakes, forming in a laboratory, water evaporating, clouds developing, ice crystals, rain, dew, frost - all the elements that accompany and add up, bit by bit, to the white landscape of winter. Aimed at readers from five upward, this book shows stunningly beautiful photographs of snowflakes, along with a description of how they are formed, fall, and explains this magical phenomena, making it all the more real and bound to appeal to both children and adults.