This beautiful biography, winner of the 1999 Caldecott Medal, tells the true story of a Vermont farm boy who was mesmerized by snowflakes. Wilson Bentley was fascinated by the six-sided frozen phenomena, and once he acquired a microscope with a camera, his childhood preoccupation took on a more scientific leaning. Bentley spent his life taking countless exquisite photographs (many that are still used in nature photography today), examining the tiny crystals and their delicate, mathematical structures. Jacqueline Briggs Martin tells this tale with simple, graceful prose that will engage children's imaginations.
这是一个真实的传记故事，威利班特利很喜爱雪花，他的父母送他一台显微照相机，他就想出各种方法把看到的雪花拍下来，酷寒的温度无法冻却他的热情，残暴的风雪也无法阻挡他的脚步，他一直坚持到人生的终点，最终，他从一个单纯的农人变成一个雪的专家，人们因此称他“雪花人”。