Explores the beauty of snowflakes, detailing what snowflakes are, how they form, and why each one is unique, and includes a discussion on snow crystals and what type of weather conditions produce snowflakes.

Includes index.

The creative genius -- Snowflake watching -- Snow crystal symmetry -- Hieroglyphs from the sky -- Morphogenesis on ice -- Snowflake weather -- A field guide to falling snow -- In search of identical snowflakes.