I love seeing happy children of many ethnicities in a picture book.īe sure to check out Water is Water with your classroom and family…and go out and play in the rain!! Also the siblings’ friends are very diverse and happy. It’s a quietly powerful display of diversity. Oh and hey, the children’s parents are black and white!! The story isn’t ABOUT their interracial family…they just happen to be so.
The story will make them smile and by the end of the book, they’ll understand how water moves from form to form. Children can make connections between the story’s words, illustrations and terms like “evaporation.” This book is for storytime and for science class! Paul writes in an easy to understand way that young children can grasp. The facts at the back of the book about the water cycle are GREAT because they refer to scenes in the book. He creates a very complete world with his art after finishing Water is Water, I felt like I knew how to travel from the family’s house to the lake, to school and back again! His watercolor and gouache clouds and fall leaves are beautiful and I enjoyed little details like the reflective, wet pavement on the school grounds. Maybe I should call my friends and have a snowball fight like the children in this book?! 🙂 Jason Chin does an amazing job of pairing Miranda Paul’s poetic lines with bright and colorful illustrations.
Snow is leftover from yesterday and it’s starting to melt as the rain hits it. Steam is steam but it also changes form to become clouds, which can form low to become fog and on and on.Īs I write this review, there’s a light rain and it’s very foggy where I am. Water goes into a glass and in a dish for the turtle but it also becomes steam for the hot cocoa they share with their father! Miranda Paul tells a story of water changing in a unique way. It starts in spring-time when the siblings spot a lone turtle in their pond. Like the water cycle, the story is cyclical. In this rhythmical, science read-aloud, we follow a brother and sister through seasons and the water cycle.
Image Credit: A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press (Macmillan), Miranda Paul/Jason Chin
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