clouds

A young boy climbs up a tree and into a waiting cloud, which takes him on a whirling adventure in the sky.

Zephyr, a mail carrier, lives in a small town with blue houses and hills and every day he carries mail along the same path, but dreams that one day a cloud will carry him to a distant land.

"Through the fantastical story of two young children,text and illustrations introduce the main kinds of clouds and the water cycle"--.

Explains the hydrologic cycle and why life depends on it, how the sun causes clouds, the three states of water, and how weather is changeable.

A lonely little cloud boy uses his imagination to create friends out of the other clouds in the sky.

A child imagines familiar shapes and exciting adventures in the clouds passing overhead.

Describes different kinds of clouds--cirrus, cumulus, stratus, and nimbus--and the types of weather they indicate.