Author: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Illustrator: Mary Azarian
Genre: Biography Non-Fiction
Sub genre: Picture Book
Theme: snowflakes, winter, photography
Characters: Wilson Bentley, His parents
Awards: Caldecott Winner
Publishing Date: 1998
Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin
Summary: This book is about a young boy named Wilson Bentley. He loved the snow and all the snowflakes. He was so interested by all the snowflakes different designs that he wanted to photograph the m. He asked his parents to get him a very expensive camera. His parents spent all their savings to get the camera. snowflake Bentley began to photograph all the different designs of snowflakes and made beautiful pictures of them. He was able to sell these pictures for money and a university bought his collection of photos and made a book of them and used his findings of snowflakes. I would use this book in class when I was teaching my students about the different types of weather. This is a really good book and it will help them to learn of the winter weather months.
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