The art is vivid, the rhyme is pleasant, and I love that there is a section in the back that provides more detailed information on the water cycle for curious kids (but you an just skip it for the younger kids).

Not only is this a really beautifully illustrated book, but the presentation of the ideas is both simple and clever. The whole thing just works really well together and does a wonderful job of getting the idea across. ( )

I hope the homestead pictured here truly exists. It’s almost too perfect to be so. I’m in love with it and the artist. ( )

This is a great book to introduce students to the water cycle in science class. This book gives examples of water in many different stages from fog to ice to steam. This would be great to review with students or even introduce as you can ask students questions about the content of the book for class. The book also has a great section for more information about water and the cycles it goes through. ( )

The story begins before the title page, with a full-bleed illustration of two brown-skinned children attempting to catch a turtle with a net (and then, on the title page, succeeding). Rushing inside out of a sudden rainstorm, the children get water to drink for themselves and for the turtle. "Drip. Sip. Pour me a cup. Water is water unless...it heats up." A page turn reveals water turning to steam over hot cups of tea. Steam subsequently becomes clouds, mist, fog, rain, puddles, ice on a pond, snowflakes, snowmelt, mud, uptake into an apple tree, apples, cider. The change in the state of water and the change in seasons proceed together; back matter includes "more about water," including an explanation of terms like evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

See also: Hey, Water by Antoinette Portis; Pie is for Sharing by Stephanie Parsley Ledyard and Jason Chin ( )