Book Recommendation -- The Man Who Named the Clouds

The boys and I read The Man Who Named the Clouds today because we've been studying weather for our earth science unit.

It was both enjoyable to read and informational.  Not only does it explain the system we still use today (which was devised nearly two hundred years ago) to classify clouds, but it provides a wonderful biography of the life of Luke Howard -- the man who created the system.

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