Why Do Raindrops Fall? Level 3 Factbook

by Peter Rees

A series of twenty non-fiction science readers which engages children in the world around them. Why is the sea salty? Why do boats float? Why do I feel thirsty? You can find the answers to these and other questions about water and weather in Why Do Raindrops Fall?

16 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2009

About the author

Peter Rees was a journalist for more than forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun, the West Australian and the Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of The Boy from Boree Creek: The Tim Fischer Story (2001), Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes (2002), Killing Juanita: a true story of murder and corruption (2004), and The Other Anzacs: The Extraordinary story of our World War I Nurses (2008 and 2009) and Desert Boy: Australians at War from Beersheba to Tobruk to El Alamein (2011 and 2012). He is currently working on a biography of Charles Bean to be published in 2015.

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

One book from a series of non-fiction science books. Young children will love reading the answers to some of their questions about the world around them. "Why Do Raindrops Fall?" addresses questions that are all related to water.

This is a very simple question-answer format with bright pictures to accompany both. The book comes from a great series that is geared towards newly independent readers as they explore science.