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Summary:
The book explains floods, and how they happen. But also tells stories of the different types of floods.

Personal Reaction:
I liked that it gave detailed examples, but it was still very informative.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1) You could just read 1 or 2 chapters to talk about those specific types of floods in detail to the class.
2) If a child is doing a report on floods they could use this book as a source of information.

Summary

This is a good informational book to teach students about floods. It talks about different ways it can flood and why farmers like it to flood. It summarizes floods and why some people, like farmers, need floods. Also, it talks about different ways that engineers have managed to stop some floods.

Personal Reaction

This book would be a good book to introduce floods to a classroom. It does a good job at explaining what a flood is and different ways engineers have stopped floods before.

Classroom Extension Ideas

1. You can make a poster and use adjectives and adverbs to describe floods and what it does to the environments after it floods.

2. Discuss with the class safety rules you would use during a flood and what you would put into an emergency safety backpack.

3. Figure out which part of the world it floods more in and do a report over it.