Bruce Hiscock

Bruce Hiscock tells of the great flood of 1993 along the upper Mississippi River, and in words and pictures he shows what a river basin is, how it works as part of the water cycle, and what happened that spring that made the system of dams and levees fail.

No one predicted the St. Louis floods of 1993 -- not even the rivers themselves! Stemming from the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers, the floods of 1993 are charted from the rivers' origin points and put in context with other states' experiences of the year 1993.

Good science, lovely pictures, but a little dry unless the reader is already interested in the subject. A little long for the littlest ones.

I didn't care for this book at all. I think a basic geography book gives more information than this book does.