Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: History as it should be--mostly

"The Children's Blizzard" excels at describing the suffering endured by those caught in the 1888 blizzard. However, the author's technique of skipping from one person to another, then returning to the first, distracts from the flow of the story. It is informative in its detailed discussion of the early days of weather forecasting by the US Signal Corps. And Laskin's tracing of the storm's development and subsequent path into the US is easy to understand. I don't think any reader will experience a windy, snowy winter's day in quite the same way again.