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Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin HenkesGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownOwl Moon by Jane YolenCloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi BarrettHow to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers
Picture Books About the Sky
130 books — 26 voters
Air Awakens by Elise KovaStorm Glass by Maria V. SnyderTris's Book by Tamora PierceTruthwitch by Susan DennardStorm Siren by Mary Weber
Weather Magic
96 books — 17 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Long Winter by Laura Ingalls WilderOn the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Storm by Akiko MiyakoshiThunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Gale Warning! Big storms in Fiction
125 books — 17 voters
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerMother of Storms by John BarnesFrigid by J. LynnWhat Stands in a Storm by Kim Cross
Storm Novels
40 books — 16 voters

The Ice Queen by Alice HoffmanThe Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnultyWhen Lightning Strikes by Jenny CarrollLucky Strike by Bobbie PyronGrave Sight by Charlaine Harris
Struck by Lightning - Fiction & Non-Fiction
33 books — 14 voters
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonWhat Stands in a Storm by Kim CrossRain by Melissa HarrisonDrowned City by Don Brown
The Weather
169 books — 13 voters

Lightning! by Lorraine Jean HoppingThe Bang Workers by Keith BoydThe Lightning Gun by Jay ParksLightning by Suzanne HarperThunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Best Children's Books About Lightning and Thunder
34 books — 9 voters
Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anna DewdneyLlama Llama Time to Share by Anna DewdneyLlama Llama Home with Mama by Anna DewdneyLlama Llama Red Pajama by Anna DewdneyLlama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney
Preschool-'L'
14 books — 6 voters

The Mark of Athena by Rick RiordanThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanWhen Lightning Strikes by Jenny CarrollFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyHeat Lightning by John Sandford
Thunderbolts and Lightning.
110 books — 6 voters
Cleopatra's Needles by Bob BrierSerpent Imagery and Symbolism by Lura N. PedriniLair of the White Worm by Bram StokerThe Tower and the Cloud by Richard N. KatzA Game of Snakes and Ladders by Doris Langley Moore
Snakes And Ladders
107 books — 6 voters

A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert by Steven J. PhillipsCactus Country by Zoë BossiereDisabled Ecologies by Sunaura TaylorDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyCounting Sheep by Gary Paul Nabhan
Best Sonoran Desert Books
25 books — 5 voters
The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanSummer Lightning by P.G. WodehouseLightning Strikes by V.C. AndrewsGreen Lightning by Ron StillmanThe Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
'Lightning' in titles
108 books — 5 voters

Lightning, Hurricanes, and Blizzards by Paul FleisherPika Bunny and the Thunderstorm by Wendy GilhulaThe Storm Book by Charlotte ZolotowThe Gravity of Missing Things by Marisa UrgoEye of the Storm by Stephen Kramer
Best Children's Books About Storms
21 books — 4 voters
Heteromorph by Wolfgang GrulkeMagnetic Orientation in Animals by Roswitha WiltschkoHerbal Abortion by Uni M. TiamatThe Strange Death of British Birdsong by Michael WaterhouseMimicry in Plants and Animals by Wolfgang Wickler
-Nature Is History-
99 books — 3 voters

The Four Winds by Kristin HannahTangerine by Edward BloorDry by Neal ShustermanRose in a Storm by Jon KatzSummer at Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham
Weather/Nature is a Character
15 books — 2 voters
The Dark Rider by Andrew CritchellStorm's Fury by Highlights for ChildrenThe Broken Saddle by James AldridgeEye of the Storm by Linda ChapmanOld Man on a Horse by Robert Westall
Horse & Lightning Covers
22 books — 2 voters

The Everything Kids' Weather Book by Joe SnedekerExtreme Weather! Weather For Kids Book On Storms by Leanne AnnettNational Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Weather by Karen De SeveA Party for Clouds by Belinda JensenStorms! by Miriam Busch Goin
Great Lightning and Thunderstorm Books for Families (Digital Formats)
10 books — 1 voter

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