Book Sharing Monday

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Today I am sharing with you a beautiful and very interesting book called "Close to the Wind: The Beaufort Scale" written and illustrated by Peter Malone.

Francis Beaufort developed the thirteen-point wind scale called the Beaufort Scale which is used still today to describe the force of the wind. The book shares the diary of a young boy on a ship in the 19th century, and his reactions to the weather. At the top of each double page, you can see the Beaufort scale level, from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane), along with how the sea surface looks, the effects on land, and man-of-war (which the glossary taught me meant warship).

Here is a small section of the boy's diary during a storm:

"The master, who's sailed these waters many times, says it's a hurricane, and that we haven't felt the worst of it yet. There is now no chance of reaching Jamaica, and our best course is to run South-East before the wind, and get ourselves as far as we can from the storm's center."
Peter Malone.

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