Blue Wolf Reviews

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  • How to Tame a Human Tornado

    How to Tame a Human Tornado

     Paul Tobin says he has written this book for any child with questions. Certainly, reading this story will produce a multitude of queries and thought-provoking ideas. For Delphine, befriending Nate was something that she drifted into, and once learning about this young man and his extraordinary intellect she is hooked. Nate’s dog Bosper can talk, although he is not supposed to do that in public. The three make an effective team when it comes to preventing disaster in the way of Aliens or just evil people who want to rule the world.

    For children who love Fantasy, Science Fiction and Science, this book leads the way. The adventures the three get into are amazing. Of course, it helps that Nate has a Gold Elephant Credit Card, the most expensive one, and that he is able to solve most problems by using science and make incredibly accurate predictions. The arch enemy of the three children is Jakob Maculte and Luria Pevermore, who are the leaders of The Red Death Tea Society.

    Fortunately, Nate has built a car (Betsy) who is also capable of talking and action. When rocket mode is needed, she engages the cylinder and uses safeguards inside the car to protect the passengers. The car is not Nate’s only weapon and his ability to predict just how his enemies will react, and precisely what sprays they are using, (Spider attracting spray for Delphine) means he can quickly use an antidote.

    This is a story that moves along quickly and has quite remarkable characters. It needs a reasonable level of reading to follow the story and a great degree of compliance to understand the scientific reasoning of Nate. It is told with humour, a few farts and burps and spits, and will engage those adventurous children who wish they had a Gold Elephant Card.

  • Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change

    Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change

    From the very beginning there has been weather: it is a simple fact that every planet that sustains life needs to have atmosphere, and to get atmosphere there has to be weather!

    Self-explanatory indeed, but the effect weather has on this our planet, the effect that we as residents on this planet have on the weather, is perhaps not as self-explanatory as we may all like to think, as the debate about carbon emissions and Climate Change rage on global portions.

    The formation of the earth as a planet is a formidable exercise in many sciences, beginning some 4.567 billion years ago; and then there was the moon, which is also a fascinating combination of sciences, believed to have contributed to the formation of a dry, sterile planet, that lightens the night sky.

    But onto the history of Weather which Revkin and Mechaley have presented in chronological order, as the miscellany of facts and accompanying pictures needs to be dealt with in fitting style, as it has such a massive effect on our daily existence and on the future of the planet.

    Beginning with 4.567 billion bce when the earth got an atmosphere, followed by 4.3 billion bce, when Water World arrived, and proceeding from there, they have filled each page with a myriad of facts and figures that remain as fascinating and amazing today, as they were when they were first discovered and recorded.

    Each of the pages is accompanied by a few lines notated as See Also which offers further reading to be had on that subject. Informative captions provide detailed information on each of the accompanying pictures.

    Suitable for a wide range of ages, this is a wonderfully informative collection of things you always wanted to know about weather and history but did not realise until you read the book.

    Weather – an illustrated history is great tool for projects, school research and anyone who loves all those little fact and figures about the planet, that make it a truly fascinating place to live.