Cloudspotting For Beginners

This is a beautiful book. Aimed principally at upper primary school children, it has been so well conceived and produced that it offers much for the more mature reader also . . . Pretor-Pinney and Grill have recognised the fundamental and key aspects of observing clouds – that their aesthetic beauty is the prime motivating factor in enthusing our interest towards them, and that their modification, or continual evolution, is best expressed in an art form lying somewhere between expressionism and impressionism, and which cannot largely be achieved using still photography . . . I know of no better book on offer to enthuse our youngest generation towards an interest in observation of the natural world and the skies, and which encourages us to view the hemisphere as the equivalent of a tableau, rather than as a digital screen

Edward Graham, Weather </i>magazine

I adored Cloudspotting for Beginners, so artfully illustrated by William Grill that reading it feels akin to floating through clouds

Imogen Carter, Best Books of 2024, Guardian