<DIV><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Before a snowflake melts on your tongue, it makes an epic journey.&nbsp; This is the story of that journey, step by step, from a single snowflake&rsquo;s creation in the clouds, through its fall to earth, to its brief and sparkling appearance on a child&rsquo;s mitten.&nbsp; Told by a scientist who knows snowflakes better than almost anyone, the story features his brilliant photographs of real snowflakes, snowflakes forming (in the author&rsquo;s lab), water evaporating, clouds developing, ice crystals, rain, dew, and frost--all the elements of the world and weather that add up, flake by flake, to the white landscape of winter.&nbsp; Aimed at readers from 6 to 12, the book gets to the heart of one of nature&rsquo;s most magical phenomena while making the wonder of the snowflake all the more real.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p></DIV>