The creators successfully balance art, information, and poetry for a result that captures the fleeting magic of snowflake-filled skies as well as their power to generate community activity.

Publishers Weekly

The fluid, rhyming text offers some basic facts about thunderstorms; the well-researched back matter presents a more detailed account . . . An informative read-aloud choice for home or classroom.

Booklist, starred review, on ZAP! CLAP! BOOM! THE STORY OF A THUNDERSTORM

Science collides with poetry in Zap! Clap! Boom!: The Story of a Thunderstorm, in which Laura Purdie Salas's pit-a-pat rhymes match the tempo of a rain shower.

Shelf Awareness on ZAP! CLAP! BOOM! THE STORY OF A THUNDERSTORM

With eye-catching art and lines that roll off the tongue, this book would be well-suited to raucous but stealthily informative science-based story hour.

BCCB on ZAP! CLAP! BOOM! THE STORY OF A THUNDERSTORM

Salas's onomatopoeic verse conveys both the ferocity of a thunderstorm and the wonder it can inspire; it begs to be read aloud.

The Horn Book on ZAP! CLAP! BOOM! THE STORY OF A THUNDERSTORM

The book is a perfect read-aloud . . . A lovely, vocabulary-stretching, story-hour gift for a cozy day.

School Library Journal on ZAP! CLAP! BOOM! THE STORY OF A THUNDERSTORM