Water Dance

Grades K-6; In a classroom you could use this book for art or poem making.

In Water Dance the water speaks of its journey from the mountains to the sea, from the sky to the land, through the land and across the terrain. The poetic verse trickles across the beautiful photographs of waters dance. This information book presents facts about water in both poetic form and

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includes a fact appendix about water for further discussion.

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It can be hard to write an educational picture book. You don't have any plot (or you DO and it feels tacked on and weird), and it may be a subject - like the water cycle - that seems to go best with dry, flat, boring diagrams with arrows on them.

The author has completely eschewed the normal

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approach to go with beautiful, evocative paintings and poetry.

It's not as informative, maybe, as an early science reader approach, but for an introduction to the subject or a younger child - or just for having around the house! - I think this is the better option. So get one standard, run of the mill book on the water cycle, but be SURE to get this one as well. You won't regret it.

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Thomas Locker blends beautiful oil paintings with scientific facts as he collaborates on this book with his science teacher wife, Candace Christianson. This is a science concept book that presents the water cycle-water in its various forms found in nature. The text effectively uses a first person

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voice, descriptive words and riddle format to engage students in each page: "I am....the rain, stream, river, sea, cloud, storm" etc.
This is a book that I would like to own. I have used it as a read aloud with Pre K students as well as students in fourth grade. In fourth grade, I read the story first and then followed up with an inquiry based, hands on science lesson about the water cycle called, "the Incredible Journey."

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Genre: Poetry

Setting: 5 Stars

Review: Water takes on many shapes and forms throughout our world. This book is a good example of poetry because it conveys expressions of emotions through the power of words.

Media: oils on canvas

A book about nature and the water cycle. The book also talks about our role with nature.
3-5
Pierce County Library

Water Dance has to be one of the most beautiful picture books I've seen in a while. Another lovely picture book that also features oil paintings is called Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson.

Water Dance follows the cycle of water from rain storm back along it's flow downhill to the sea, through

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evaporation and becoming rain again. Each page has a verse and a print of oil painting to compliment the words.

My son enjoys books with simple rhymes and I enjoy books that are well illustrated. This book will be a perfect book to share over and over again.

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A beautifully illustrated book about the cycle of water. From streams to rainbows. Very factual as well.

This book has beautiful pictures and talks about the many forms of water from being a stream to a river to a mist and then a storm . This is a very imformative book I love everything about it.

Perfect drawings of nature, text almost written like poetry

4 and 5 yr. olds

Water describes itself in many different ways. Rain, rivers, mist, oceans and more. We can learn to respect and value the water and the important role it plays for our surroundings and our lives.

This awesome book is about all the different forms of water.
Ages 3-5 and up.

Beautiful story on water. It shows you all the different forms and uses of water.

This book shows different colors that reflect on the water. The pictures in this book are very helpful for the little children that can make increase their interest on everything related with nature
Age: 3-7 years
Source: Pierce College Library.

This beautifully illustrated book shows water on it's daily journey around the world, in all of it's different forms, from rain to rivers, and oceans to lakes.
Ages: 3-7
Source: Pierce College Library

For ages 7 years old and up. Different types of water is described beautifully. (Pierce County Library System)

I wish so much that the design for this book had been done differently. The illustrations are gorgeous, but each page has an inch-wide sort of beige border, and that just really ruins it. If they'd gone full-page with the illustrations, they'd be absolutely striking; as it is, they sort of look

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like badly framed hotel art. It's really a shame, because between those illustrations and the lovely text, it could easily have been five stars.

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Pretty pictures, in the style of those big landscapes about conquering the American frontier, but the text was kinda poetical, kinda boring. Notes at the end to support the science of storm, lake, rain, river, etc.

This is a beautiful prose book about water, with the text voiced by "water." Complementing the poetic text and inspiring paintings are fascinating scientific facts about water. Leveled to grade 3 for reading, 1 to 3 for listening.

This story describes many of the different forms that water can take and where it can be found. Each pages begins with a description, almost like a riddle, then ends with a statement to tell us what it is. Rain, waterfalls, mist, lakes, ocean, rainbow and more.

Ages: 4-10
Source: Youtube