Title: About Disasters
Author: J. Berry
Publisher: Childrens Press
Date: 1990
ISBN No.: 0516029592
Summary: This book uses humorous illustrations and text to
discuss 12 different disasters and how to prepare
for and survive them, one of which is flooding.
Title: Flood
Author: B. Knapp
Publisher: Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Date: 1990
ISBN No.: 0811423743
Summary: Describes some of the world's greatest flood
disasters, why floods occur, and how people have
learned to live with floods
Title: Floods
Author: D. Fradin
Publisher: Childrens Press
Date: 1982
ISBN No.: 0516008560
Summary: Starting with the terrible 1976 floods in
Colorado, this book discusses floods-causes,
effects, and possible precautions>
Title: Help! Yelled Maxwell
Author: J. Stevenson and E. Stevenson
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Date: 1978
ISBN No.: 0688801331
Summary: When a flood threatens the town, Maxwell finds
help in an unlikely place.
Title: Hobie Hanson, Greatest Hero of the Mall
Author: J. Gilson
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
Date: 1989
ISBN No.: 0671706462
Summary: When his town is devastated by a flood, Hobie's
fifth grade class is forced to meet every day in
the shopping mall. Through a series of funny and
daring escapades, it is clear that Hobie is
without a doubt the greatest hero of the mall.
Title: Rain Drop Splash
Author: A. Tresselt
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard
Date: 1946
ISBN No.:
Summary: This book tells the story of how the rain
continued to fall and went from a raindrop to an
ocean with ships floating on it. Finally, the sun
comes out and the rain stops.
Title: Storm in the Night
Author: M. Stolz
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date: 1988
ISBN No: 0060259124
Summary: While sitting through a fearsome thunderstorm that
has put the lights out, Thomas hears a story from
grandfather's boyhood, when Grandfather was afraid
of thunderstorms.
Title: The Day It Rained Forever
Author: R. C. Lee
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date: 1968
LC No.: 68012349
Summary: Heavy rains and flooding cut off Spring Valley and
threaten to destroy the town, until a boy realizes
that the rains are caused by a machine built by a
scientist, now seriously ill in the hospital, and
that it will rain forever unless he and his
friends can turn off the machine.
Title: The Washout
Author: C. Carrick
Publisher: Seabury Press
Date: 1978
ISBN No.: 0816432171
Summary: When a summer storm washes out the road,
Christopher decides to row around the lake for
help--and almost gets into serious trouble.
Children, Stress, and Natural Disasters