Snowflake Bentley

by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

This biography tells the story of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, a boy who loved snow so much that he wanted to capture its beauty forever in photographs. His parents, both farmers, scrimped and saved up their money and bought him a camera that came with its own microscope, and Wilson started photographing snowflakes. While at first no one paid him much attention, he later went on to become a famous nature photographer. With lush color illustrations throughout.

Available editions of Snowflake Bentley

	9780395861622, Reinforced Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 $7.00 (GOOD) Other copies of 9780395861622

	9780547248295, Paperback, Sandpiper, 2009 $5.29 (NEW) Other copies of 9780547248295

Media Reviews

"This is a lyrical biographical tribute to a farmer, whose love of snow and careful camera work expanded both natural science and photography."

Excerpt

Even so his first pictures were failures--no better than shadows. Yet he would not quit. Mistake by mistake, snowflake by snowflake, Willie worked through every storm. Winter ended, the snow melted, and he had no good pictures. He waited for another season of snow. One day, in the second winter, he tried a new experiment. And it worked! Willie had figured out how to photograph snowflakes! "Now everyone can see the great beauty in a tiny crystal," he said.

Synopses

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

First Line

In the days when the farmers worked with ox and sled and cut the dark with lantern light, there lived a boy who loved snow more than anything else in the world.

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