An OK story, describing several different physical environments and what must be done to survive there.

The story itself is very choppy (which can actually make for a good bedtime story over a few nights!). My 7-year-old wanted to know more about the storm--hurricane? thunderstorms? tornadoes? if they kept the river form flooding, how were peoples' houses flooded? And a bunch more questions. Which led to a good discussion, with me unable to fully satisfy his questions about why the author didn't include more detail. (A discussion of signatures and not-too-scary kids books wasn't working for him :) )