Fly Guy Presents: Weather

Fly Guy Presents #9

by Tedd Arnold

Learn all about weather with Fly Guy! It's time for a field trip! Fly Guy and Buzz are going to a weather station to learn all about weather. With straightforward text, humorous asides, and kid-friendly full-bleed photographs throughout, young readers will love learning about tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, and much more! Award-winning author/illustrator Tedd Arnold really brings nonfiction to life for beginning readers! And this book has eye-catching holographic foil on the front cover!

Genres: Childrens, Nonfiction, Science, Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

Published September 13, 2016

About the author

Tedd grew up with three brothers. His family lived on a farm in Pennsylvania for several years then returned to Elmira until Tedd was ten years old. His father's work then required that they move to Gainesville, Florida. There, Tedd's first art lessons in an abandoned dentist's office over the Happy Hour pool hall eventually led to a fine arts degree from the University of Florida.

He and his wife, Carol, started their family in Tallahassee where Tedd worked as a commercial illustrator. Carol, a kindergarten teacher, drew Tedd's attention to children's books. Their first son, Walter, inspired his breakthrough picture book, NO JUMPING ON THE BED!.

He and his family now live in Elmira. His second son, William, now stars in NO MORE WATER IN THE TUB!, a sequel to his first book. He has now published over 50 books as author and illustrator.

Reviews

[Hilario Castillo · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Fly Guy Presents: Weather" by Tedd Arnold is a children's non-fiction book that provides an introduction to different types of weather. The book features Fly Guy, a lovable fly character, who takes readers on a journey to learn about weather phenomena such as clouds, precipitation, and natural disasters. Through Fly Guy's adventures, the book explains the science behind different weather patterns and explores how weather impacts our daily lives. The book is illustrated with Arnold's trademark cartoon-style artwork, which is both engaging and informative. Along with the entertaining storyline, "Fly Guy Presents: Weather" includes fun facts, jokes, and a glossary of key terms to help young readers build their understanding of weather concepts.
One literary device used in "Fly Guy Presents: Weather" is personification. Throughout the book, non-human things, such as clouds and rain, are given human-like qualities and actions. For example, the book describes cumulus clouds as "big, fluffy sheep," and rain as "teardrops from a giant's eye." By using personification, the author helps to make the weather concepts more relatable and engaging for young readers, and allows them to better understand the characteristics and behavior of different weather phenomena.

[Stormi Ellis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this with my son, he's in 2nd grade, for school. It's is very informative and I even learned a few things, but it was a lot of information for a young reader. I say this because my son has to test on this book and the amount of information he has to learn quickly seems a bit much, but he loved it and I enjoyed it as well.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of information in this book about weather. It was a little overwhelming for my 6 year old. Some of the information I skipped while reading it to him, as I didn't want him to get nervous about possible severe weather events. I will definitely hold on to this one for a bit of time before we read it again.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun book in the Fly Guy Presents series about weather. I appreciated that it wasn't super "climate change and doomsday!" It was just factual and talked about sun, snow, rain, wind, the water cycle (which I will always cringe at, thanks to Lemony Snicket), clouds, storms, etc. A fun book to get kids into science.

[Emily Farquhar · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book that will entertain students with its fun, realistic pictures and facts about weather. This book is the perfect twist on nonfiction.

F&P: J
AR: 1.9

Six Traits:
Ideas, Organization, Word Choice

[AMY · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book packed with facts, pictures and illustrations. Good to use with a unit on weather. Highly recommended for grades 2-5.

[createitlibrarian (Amanda) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great for 1st-2nd Graders. You could use it in preschool/kindergarten storytime by tabbing pages you think the children might understand.

[Wade · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good information except they didn’t have indigo as a color in the rainbow (my 5 year old pointed this out!). And then of course it has to talk about global warming. But other then that it was fine.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great overview of weather basics

My son and I learned a lot from this book. We can’t wait to read about Fly Guy and Buzz’s next adventure.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great book

[Amber Kazen · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 7 year old loves the fly guy books. So he gives it 5 stars. This book was obviously all about the weather. He learned about the rain cycle,clouds, solids,liquid and gas.

[Marcia Van Camp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really surprised how good these “fly guy presents” books are. The pictures, vocabulary, and pacing etc is perfect for my young kids

[Angel]

my favorite part was when fly guy did a flip and died

[Sydney Field · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book is told by a fictional character fly guy, presenting real information about weather. Book is informative and engaging for children.

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid overview of weather/climate for emerging readers.

[La Coccinelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is actually a surprisingly strong non-fiction title about weather. I'm not familiar with Fly Guy, but you don't really need to be to get something out of this book. It's full of facts and pictures, teaching kids about weather and climate in an easy-to-understand way. We learn about precipitation, wind, jobs to do with weather, climates, and even a bit about climate change. The book makes the same ineffectual suggestions for saving the planet as most other children's books I've read (i.e., turn off lights, take shorter showers, plant a tree), but I've resigned myself to the fact that that's all we're going to get.

The information is laid out quite nicely, so it's all clear and easy to digest. Pronunciation of more difficult words is included (although, I found it kind of hilarious; when I said some of the words out loud, I found myself speaking with an American accent).

I didn't learn much that I didn't already know, but I can see this being a great title for kids. And if they're already fans of Fly Guy... that's even better!

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[Sara Kay]

In this book, fly guy takes a trip to the weather station. Here, he introduces kids to all types of weather, from storms to blizzards. This is done in a fun way with many jokes and fun facts. There are also several pictures which kids would enjoy looking at.
I liked this book and think it would be useful in a classroom when talking about weather. It would also be good just to introduce various weather terms they may not know, like kids from hotter areas may not know what a blizzard is.

[Christy Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

Want learn weather then open this up

This is a great book to start kids into weather. Gives you different types of clouds names. It tells about the different climates. The biggest storm on earth and lots more. Definitely educational read. Also like the graphics.

[MeghanMurphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very cute pages. Very informational and I learned something new. Two things in fact!

[Theresa Grissom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good nonfiction picture books that explains all sorts of weather. Recommending this to the younger age teachers at the school when covering weather.

[Mary Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm concerned the pages are too crowded for beginning readers to absorb all this information.

[Alison Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think that you should read this book because fly guy and buzz go on a field trip to a weather place and it feels like you are with them.