| View Larger Image | Water Dance | Paperbackby Thomas Locker (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Voyager Books | | Page Count: | 32 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2002 | | Sales Rank: | 26,345th |
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FEATURES | - ISBN13: 9780152163969
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Travel with author-illustrator Thomas Locker and follow our planet's most precious resource--water--on its daily journey through our world. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 10 reviews)
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Poetry and science at once by Ulyyf (NYC)  4 Stars
August 22, 2009
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 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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Beautiful Pictures!!! by Kate  5 Stars
October 20, 2008
This book has absolutely gorgeous pictures. I bought this book as an aid while teaching the water cycle to my classes. This book is perfect for helping children to understand the water cycle!
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WHAT A DELIGHTFUL WAY TO TEACH AND LEARN. by D. Blankenship (The Ozarks) 5 Stars
May 10, 2007
This is probably one of the most useful books I have come across in recent years. It is a delight to the ear and the eye. The author teaches us the story of water, or more specifically, the water cycle. He does this with simple, lyrical prose and combines this with some wonderful, original art. The paintings in this book are breath taking. This is a wonderful way to teach children about rain, water, streams, lakes and nature. It can be read to the class and then discussed page by page (it is amazing to hear the comments of the children)and at the same time each painting can be admired and discussed. I have watched our art teachers use this one in class as well as the reading teachers. But just as importantly, I have observed quite a number of children just setting along, reading and carefully studying the pictures. (I must admit to picking up this one my self, quite often, and just gazing at the wonderful art). This is a pretty good indorsement for any children's book. This is certainly one that should be added to any children's library, either at home or at school. Highly recommend this one.
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Artistic, Poetic and Educational? 5 Stars
January 28, 2004
Wonderful read for the whole family. This is a book we look forward to reading to our little one, over and over. The art work is fantastic, the words are entertaining and has a section at the end of the book to educate about all the cycles of water. Do not hesitate to add this to your library!
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Water Dance is a beautiful way to learn by Harriet Emerson (Morgantown, WV USA) 5 Stars
May 19, 2002
Thomas Locker's beautiful oil paintings make "Water Dance" a work of art and a wonderful way for kids to learn about the water cycle.I decided to see what's out there for kids about water and began with "Water Dance," "Where the River Begins," and "Cloud Dance," all by Locker. I fell in love with his art and . . . also bought "Sky Tree" and several others.I just published a review of approximately 20 kids water books titled "Teaching Children about the Hydrologic Cycle." To read, go to www.ndwc.wvu.edu and click on the current issue of "On Tap," a magazine about drinking water in small communities.
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Cloud Dance
by Thomas Locker (Author)
Journey across the heavens through thick cumulus clouds, wispy cirrus clouds, and wide stratus clouds as they dance through every season of the year.
Thomas Locker introduces young readers to the basic science of our natural world with brilliant illustrations and poetic prose.
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| Mountain Dance
by Thomas Locker (Author)
Listen. The earth seems still and quiet, but constantly, silently, it is moving and changing.
Mountain Dance takes readers from summit to shore, and into the depths of the earth, exploring the geographic forces it takes to move, build, and wear away the great peaks and valleys of our planet. Thomas Locker's poetic text and exquisitely detailed paintings reveal fascinating details of geology in this beautiful and inspiring introduction to earth science.
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| Sky Tree: Seeing Science Through Art
by Thomas Locker (Author), Candace Christiansen (Author), Thomas Locker (Illustrator)
A tree stands on a hill by a river. As the sky changes, so does the tree, its branches filling with clouds, stars, snow, birds, mists, and the golden spring sun. One tree can mean many things. Thomas Locker's lyrical text records the changes in the tree's world just as simply as a child might observe them, and his magnificent paintings crystallize the natural phenomena that embellish the tree on each page. Questions at the bottom of each page lead to a unique discussion in the back of...
| | | A Drop Around the World
by Barbara McKinney (Author), Michael S. Maydak (Illustrator)
A drop of rain is a drop of life--a drop of eternity. Barbara Shaw McKinney and illustrator Michael Maydak take us on an "out of sight" journey from Maine to Mumbai, with just one raindrop as it touches plant, animal, and human life all around the world. Traveling with Drop, readers will see the world, inside and out, from solid, liquid, and vaporous viewpoint. Full color.
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| Where the River Begins (Picture Puffins)
by Thomas Locker (Author)
As they watch the river flow past their house, Josh and Aaron make up stories about where the river begins--stories that prompt them to set out one day and locate the river's origin. Reprint. PW. AB. NYT.
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