I Am a Cumulus Cloud

What if you could float high above the ground, drift on the wind, and discover what a cloud is really made of?Most days, the narrator is a human. But today, they're a cumulus cloud-white, fluffy, and shaped like something drawn with a crayon. From high in the sky, fields become green patches, rivers become silver threads, and cars shrink into tiny dots. But inside this cloud, nothing is soft or fluffy. It's wet, windy, and filled with billions of tiny water droplets.Children can understand far more than we sometimes expect. I Am a Cumulus Cloud doesn't shrink the science to fit an arbitrary idea of what young children are "ready" to know. Instead, it gives curious young minds real atmospheric science through language and illustrations designed to make big ideas understandable-and fascinating.As the cloud grows, young readers discover how invisible water vapor becomes visible, why cumulus clouds have flat bottoms, how hundreds of tons of water can remain suspended in the air, and what determines whether a cloud grows into a storm-or simply fades back into the blue.I Am a Cumulus Cloud blends imaginative storytelling with real weather science, transforming something children see almost every day into a journey through condensation, convection, water droplets, and the changing atmosphere.Part of the I Am a Cloud series, I Am a Cumulus Cloud is nonfiction for children who are ready to wonder, question, and understand more than we often give them credit for.Look up. The invisible is becoming visible, and a new cloud is being born.Because your child's mind isn't common.