At last! Here’s a brand-new board book edition of an Eric Carle picture book that’s a favorite with littlest cloud gazers everywhere! Little Cloud likes to stand out from the crowd. When all the other clouds drift up, he goes his own way, changing shapes to become a sheep, an airplane, a shark and a funny clown. It’s all lots of fun, but so is playing with friends. So this time, Little Cloud joins the crowd, gathering with his pals into one giant cloud. And then they rain! In Little Cloud, Eric Carle celebrates the possibilities of imagination with textured collages of sky-blue and white in a story that will encourage the youngest child to read clouds. Eric Carle lives in Northampton and Charlemont, MA.
Little Cloud
(9780399230349)
Written & illustrated by Eric Carle
Published by World of Eric Carle
Theme/topic: Weather
Suggested learning area: AC9S1U02 (Science – Year 1), ACSSU004 (Science – Foundation),
Little Cloud by Eric Carle is a beautifully illustrated story that follows a small cloud as it drifts across the sky, changing into different shapes before joining other clouds to bring rain. The book encourages young readers to observe and explore daily changes in weather patterns through clouds and understand clouds are part of the water cycle (ACSSU004 – Foundation Year, Science; AC9S1U02 – Year 1, Science).
Through Carle’s signature collage-style illustrations and simple yet engaging text, Little Cloud inspires children to use their imagination while learning about the natural world. The book also provides opportunities for discussions about how clouds form, change, and contribute to the environment, making it a wonderful resource for early science learning.
Curriculum Alignment:
- These AC codes are suggested purely based on the book’s content and are provided for reference only.
AC9S1U02 9.0 (Science Year 1): Describe daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday life
• making and recording observations of phenomena such as changes to weather, seasonal changes to plants such as colour or dropping of leaves, and growth of flowers or fruit
• noticing how daily weather indicators and seasonal patterns help us to make plans for activities in our daily lives
• investigating how seasonal changes affect plants and animals, including animals that hibernate and migrate
• investigating how changes in the weather affect plants and animals, including humans
• exploring how people make clothing choices using predictions of weather or knowledge of seasonal changes
• recognising the extensive knowledges of daily and seasonal changes in weather patterns and landscape held by First Nations Australians
• exploring how First Nations Australians’ concepts of time and weather patterns explain how things happen in the world around them
ACSSU004 8.4 (Science Foundation): Daily and seasonal changes in our environment affect everyday life
• learning how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ concepts of time and weather patterns explain how things happen in the world around them (OI.3, OI.5)
• linking the changes in the daily weather to the way we modify our behaviour and dress for different conditions, including examples from different cultures
• investigating how changes in the weather might affect animals such as pets, animals that hibernate, or migratory animals
